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P125
AI companies will build bunkers to protect core scientists before releasing AGI, believing it will cause geopolitical tensions and possibly World War III

What Jiang said

“Once we all get into the bunker... We're definitely going to build a bunker before we release AGI... Such a powerful technology would surely become an object of intense design for governments globally. It could escalate geopolitical tensions.”

Analysis

Ilya Sutskever stated they will 'definitely' build a bunker before releasing AGI because such powerful technology would escalate geopolitical tensions and become an object of intense desire for governments globally. Scientists would need protection.

Source lecture

• Game Theory #24

Status history

• 2026-05-23 · Pending (glm)

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