Colin Mortimer

One of the most AGI-pilled elites in the world before the current moment was Henry Kissinger, right up to his death in 2023 at age 100. He saw what very few others in policy did: that AI would reshape national security, great-power competition, and ultimately human civilization more than any other force in the coming decade Kissinger realized this all the way back in 2016, at age 93, when he attended a talk by Demis Hassabis on AlphaGo. He saw both the technology's potential and its uninterpretability. He devoted the last seven years of his life to AGI-pilling the national security apparatus, writing a 2018 essay in The Atlantic that led to the creation of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, chaired by his longtime collaborator and coauthor Eric Schmidt He called AI "as consequential as the advent of nuclear weapons", said in February 2023 that "generative AI presents a philosophical and practical challenge on a scale not experienced since the start of the Enlightenment", and even traveled to Beijing in July 2023, at age 100, to encourage Xi Jinping to hold talks with the US on AI governance, much like US-Soviet talks on nuclear arms control during the Cold War. One month before his death, he wrote a Foreign Affairs piece encouraging Biden to meet with Xi on AI risk, which they did Few people have both this level of foresight and this degree of neuroplasticity at such an advanced age