That, or they don't care if they get to AGI first, and just want their payday now.
Which sounds pretty in-line with the SV culture of putting profit above all else.
Which sounds pretty in-line with the SV culture of putting profit above all else.
If I were a person like several of the people working on AI right now (or really, just heading up tech companies), I could be the kind to look at a possible world-ending event happening in the next - eh, year, let's say - and just want to have a party at the end of the world.
Five years to ten years? Harder to predict.
The window there would at _least_ include the next 5 years, though obviously not ten.