Hanson's post of 6 May 2022 states that recent large AI systems, with simple separate values and almost no self-reflection or self-improvement, offer little support for the scenario in which one system 'fooms' over days to weeks, and that he still finds foom unlikely though not impossible.
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Foom Update → contests → Fast or hard takeoff