Daniel Kokotajlo is the founder of the AI Futures Project and a former OpenAI researcher who worked on forecasting, AI governance, and safety.
Mike Massimino is a former NASA astronaut and veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.
The deepest hole humans have ever drilled into the Earth is just 12.3 kilometers, about 0.2% of the distance to the planet's core. That effort, the Soviet-era Kola Superdeep Borehole, took more than 20 years to complete. And despite decades of technological progress since, we haven't gone any deeper.