Dario Amodei (Anthropic) and Demis Hassabis (Google Deep Mind) were interviewed by Zanny Minton Beddoes (The Economist) at Davos this week.
Interestingly, both mentioned at separate points that their favorite movie was Contact, based on the book by Carl Sagan. The only audience question was from Philip Johnston, CEO of Starcloud – a company building data centers in space, asking about the Fermi Paradox.
Demi's answer: "there has to be an answer to the fermi paradox, I have my own theories, but it's of scope for the next minute.."
When talking about soft disclosure and disclosure in general, I think people are underestimating the role of companies that are very publicly and outwardly attempting to develop non-human intelligence. The last question in particular has the implication of 'if it can be done here, can't it be done elsewhere in the universe?", if so, why don't we see them? It seems both have their own theories about that.
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Most disclosure oriented conversation are looking at historical programs and incidents. Recent UFO discourse often seems to miss that the largest companies in the world right now are racing to develop their own non-human intelligences.
The video above contains a dialogue with Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis, CEOs of Anthropic and Google DeepMind respectively, at Davos. Both mention that their favorite movie is Contact, based on Carl Sagans novel about first encountering an alien civilization. The only audience question is related to the fermi paradox, and whether that indicates that civilizations are unable to build AGIs – it seems that Demi has his own theories about that that he is not willing to share publicly at the moment.
This of course is no kind of explicit disclosure, but folks should keep their mind open to the different sources of soft disclosure that may be filtered into public discourse.