With the currently-common belief in a winner-take-all race towards artificial general intelligence (AGI), the potential strategic advantage of highly advanced models may soon lead companies to leverage their models confidentially and internally to increase technical progress—but providing little signal of advancement to competitors and the broader outside world.
Explicit stated here. for all the hand wringing over how much is spent on AI, no executive can battle the perception of what if they’re wrong. its agi or bust. My money is on bust in the short term, transformational in the long term.
Quote Citation: Yoshua Bengio and Charlotte Stix, “When it Comes to AI, What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us | TIME”, OCT 22, 2025 6:15 AM ET, https://time.com/7327327/ai-what-we-dont-know-can-hurt-us/