The coherent agency research agenda ran for several years without reaching a solution; it is possible that if half of the graduating class of physicists worked on the problem they could solve it, but this opportunity was not seized because these research agendas take long serial time and by now 'it's kind of late.'
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Eliezer YudkowskyEvidence Quote
“we spent like that was one thing that was like a running research agenda for several years uh we didn't find something...it could be that if you like took half the graduating physicists and put them on AI alignment work that one of them would solve the problem but you know we we didn't get a chance”
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Live: Eliezer Yudkowsky - Is Artificial General Intelligence too Dangerous to Build?— Center for the Future of AI, Mind & SocietyCreated: 8/10/2026, 3:35:53 PM
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