Recently (2 Nov), The Guardian posted what I thought was an extremely well-made video with Ilya's thoughts. I didn't think to repost it at the time but given the OpenAI developments over the last couple of days, and the complete Twitter and media meltdown surrounding that, I thought this video gives a strong vibey insight into Ilya's thoughts on AGI and safety and it's a useful reference point for how general public may perceive Ilya (had 221k views thus far).
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Transcript (bold highlights mine):
Now AI is a great thing, because AI will solve all the problems that we have today. It will solve employment, it will solve disease, it will solve poverty,... (read 931 more words →)