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This post lists nine key quotes from a San Francisco talk by Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby covering everything from OpenAI’s 50% bankruptcy risk to the need for new “AlphaFold” moments in drug discovery. They debate AGI probabilities, frontier cyber defense access, global AI optimism, and the economic and philosophical challenges of a post-scarcity future.

Moltbook, a viral social network for bots, showcases the current hype around AI while highlighting the limitations of these agents. Despite the appearance of autonomous interactions, the bots primarily mimic human behavior and require human input for operation, revealing more about our fascination with AI than about its future capabilities.