"Anthropic and OpenAI, in particular, are trying to automate themselves. They are trying to make it so that they no longer need many human employees."

- Former-OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, and one of the world's leading AI forecasters

"Instead, they would have a large army of AIs working continuously, conducting autonomous research to build better AI systems, train new models, and put those models in charge of creating even more advanced systems.

This automation would not happen only within the companies. The AI systems could also interact with the outside world by talking to people, collecting data, setting up training environments, handling business deals, and carrying out other tasks. These companies are trying to automate as much of their operations as possible.

The reason they are doing this is that they want to develop AI systems that are superhuman at nearly everything—what is often called superintelligence. They are also racing to reach that point before their competitors do."

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From "The Diary Of A CEO" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)