“With the decades of political backlash against technology that we've seen already in the U.S., where in California, for example, you can't build an apartment building. You can't build a data center. You can't build a solar farm. You can't build an oil refinery. If you can't build any of these things, like what makes you think the government is going to allow you to build superintelligence? It's not going to happen.”

…medical advice because we want to keep doctors employed. We're going to ban research on directions that could be very capable without producing any existential risk, like self-driving cars, for example. Like we've seen much political opposition to self-driving cars. We're going to ban the construction of new data centers, even though that is not the best way to reduce existential risk. And so with the decades of political backlash against technology that we've seen already in the U.S., where in California, for example, you can't build an apartment building. You can't build a data center. You can't build a solar farm. You can't build an oil refinery. If you can't build any of these things, like what makes you think the government is going to allow you to build superintelligence? It's not going to happen.