Cold Takes on Forecasting AI

For other AI-related Cold Takes posts (not necessarily about forecasting AI), see this sequence: Cold Takes on AI Risk.

Consider also exploring the Most Important Century series.


One key post in this sequence:

  • AI Timelines: Where the Arguments, and the “Experts,” Stand

    • This piece starts with a summary of when we should expect transformative AI to be developed, based on the multiple angles covered earlier in the series. I then address the question: “Why isn’t there a robust expert consensus on this topic, and what does that mean for us?”

Fore­cast­ing Trans­for­ma­tive AI: What Kind of AI?

Fore­cast­ing trans­for­ma­tive AI: what’s the bur­den of proof?

Fore­cast­ing Trans­for­ma­tive AI: Are we “trend­ing to­ward” trans­for­ma­tive AI? (How would we know?)

Fore­cast­ing trans­for­ma­tive AI: the “biolog­i­cal an­chors” method in a nutshell

AI Timelines: Where the Ar­gu­ments, and the “Ex­perts,” Stand

“Biolog­i­cal an­chors” is about bound­ing, not pin­point­ing, AI timelines