Frank PasqualeAltman’s ‘plan to solve global warming by asking a nonexistent machine for three wishes:’
“I think once we have a really powerful super-intelligence, addressing climate change will not be particularly difficult…you can say, ‘Tell me how to make a lot of clean energy cheaply,’ ‘Tell me how to efficiently capture carbon,’ and then ‘Tell me how to build a factory to do this at planetary scale’ – if you can do that, you can do a lot of other things too.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/03/tech-oligarchs-musk
“I think once we have a really powerful super-intelligence, addressing climate change will not be particularly difficult…you can say, ‘Tell me how to make a lot of clean energy cheaply,’ ‘Tell me how to efficiently capture carbon,’ and then ‘Tell me how to build a factory to do this at planetary scale’ – if you can do that, you can do a lot of other things too.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/03/tech-oligarchs-musk
Patrick Hochstenbach