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How should we navigate explosive AI progress?

AI is already accelerating innovation, and might supercharge it in the future.

This might lead to economic abundance and better collective decision-making, or to AI-enabled dictatorships and new bioweapons.

We are a research nonprofit asking: how can we reach as good an outcome as possible? And what can we do, now, to prepare?

Some tools for col­lec­tive epistemics

Forethought6 Feb 2026 11:01 UTC
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Idea: the in­tel­li­gence ex­plo­sion convention

Forethought5 Feb 2026 9:07 UTC
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De­sign in­ter­na­tional AI pro­jects with DAID in mind

Forethought3 Feb 2026 8:50 UTC
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Thoughts on AGI and world government

Forethought29 Jan 2026 7:22 UTC
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My favourite ver­sion of an in­ter­na­tional AGI project

Forethought27 Jan 2026 10:26 UTC
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Forethought se­ries: an in­ter­na­tional AGI project

Forethought27 Jan 2026 8:18 UTC
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Are Short AI Timelines Really Higher-Lev­er­age?

Forethought23 Jan 2026 7:26 UTC
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Is Flour­ish­ing Pre­de­ter­mined?

Forethought21 Jan 2026 21:08 UTC
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ML re­search di­rec­tions for pre­vent­ing catas­trophic data poisoning

Forethought7 Jan 2026 10:21 UTC
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Could space de­bris block ac­cess to outer space?

Forethought17 Dec 2025 16:17 UTC
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Forethought has room for more funding

Forethought21 Nov 2025 15:42 UTC
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Could one coun­try out­grow the rest of the world?

Tom_Davidson21 Aug 2025 15:41 UTC
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The tra­jec­tory of the fu­ture could soon get set in stone

William_MacAskill11 Aug 2025 11:04 UTC
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Will morally mo­ti­vated ac­tors steer us to­wards a near-best fu­ture?

William_MacAskill8 Aug 2025 18:29 UTC
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How hard to achieve is eu­topia?

William_MacAskill6 Aug 2025 17:43 UTC
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How quick and big would a soft­ware in­tel­li­gence ex­plo­sion be?

Tom_Davidson5 Aug 2025 15:47 UTC
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Should we aim for flour­ish­ing over mere sur­vival? The Bet­ter Fu­tures se­ries.

William_MacAskill4 Aug 2025 14:27 UTC
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The In­dus­trial Explosion

rosehadshar26 Jun 2025 14:41 UTC
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1 comment15 min readEA link
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AI-en­abled coups: a small group could use AI to seize power

Tom_Davidson16 Apr 2025 16:51 UTC
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