The AI Summit Where Everyone Agreed on Bad News

Top AI CEOs like DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and OpenAI's Sam Altman have recently been urging academics and governments to grapple with this issue more deeply, to better prepare the world for what they expect will be a highly disruptive economic shock. So, every day for a week--in breakout rooms and in a nightly communal sauna--these 18 experts hashed out a picture of what economic shocks might be coming down the track… and what to do about them. Bad news -- One outcome of the so-called "AGI social contract summit" was a list of four consensus statements, according to the summit's organizers. These statements have not previously been reported. They paint a grim picture of where the world could be headed, absent significant interventions by governments and societies.