Alex Amadori @testdrivenzen
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@testdrivenzen (Alex Amadori) — 13m
ex-xAI researcher: Once it gets smarter than all of humanity combined, that's where you start bending the limits of physics.
interviewer: What does that mean for jobs?
> QUOTED IMAGE: The San Francisco Standard (article screenshot, nav tabs visible: "The Boom Loop", "Crisis in the Streets", "The School Wars", "Criminal Justice", "Transportatio[n]")
> Once researchers themselves can be automated, once a machine can replicate how you think and do it better than you, that's the runaway train. That's where things really take off. Once it gets smarter than all of humanity combined, that's where you start bending the limits of physics. How we develop materials, how we transport electricity, things that sound like science fiction just become reality.
> What does that mean for jobs?
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A quote from an unnamed ex-xAI researcher (interviewed by The San Francisco Standard) framing AI-driven automation of research as the trigger for recursive self-improvement ("runaway train") leading to superintelligence and physical/technological breakthroughs; tweet screenshots the article excerpt alongside the interviewer's follow-up question about job displacement.