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Chinese AI researcher: I might become Ye Wenjie

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Chinese AI researcher: I might become Ye Wenjie

A researcher at a Chinese frontier lab, who has read the Three Body Problem series since high school and grasps existential risk only vaguely, performs capabilities research and says he might become Ye Wenjie if AI produces a superior intelligence and no good alternative exists.

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