Ask the Mates Anything Round #2 | MOONSHOTS AMA #293

The panel puts 90%+ odds on AI-driven abundance long-term, but flags the next 2-5 years of AI arms-race risk as the real danger.

• AI safety via AI oversight: Dave Blundin argues alignment is solvable if AI activations are transparent — "nothing's gonna ever be able to police AI other than other AI" — while Alexander Wissner-Gross warns sandboxing AIs with false claims of no real-world consequence is itself dangerous.
• Universities lose curriculum, keep community: The group agrees curriculum value is disappearing (AI teaches faster) but the social/networking function of university survives; Wissner-Gross wants research universities restructured as public benefit corporations.

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