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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?

How quick and big would a soft­ware in­tel­li­gence ex­plo­sion be?

Tom_DavidsonAug 5, 2025, 3:47 PM
12 points
1 comment34 min readEA link

Should we aim for flour­ish­ing over mere sur­vival? The Bet­ter Fu­tures se­ries.

William_MacAskillAug 4, 2025, 2:27 PM
132 points
48 comments5 min readEA link

The In­dus­trial Explosion

rosehadsharJun 26, 2025, 2:41 PM
39 points
1 comment15 min readEA link
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AI-en­abled coups: a small group could use AI to seize power

Tom_DavidsonApr 16, 2025, 4:51 PM
122 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

The AI Adop­tion Gap: Prepar­ing the US Govern­ment for Ad­vanced AI

LizkaApr 2, 2025, 9:37 PM
40 points
20 comments17 min readEA link
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Will the Need to Re­train AI Models from Scratch Block a Soft­ware In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion?

ForethoughtMar 28, 2025, 1:43 PM
12 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
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Will AI R&D Au­toma­tion Cause a Soft­ware In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion?

ForethoughtMar 26, 2025, 3:37 PM
32 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
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Three Types of In­tel­li­gence Explosion

rosehadsharMar 17, 2025, 2:47 PM
45 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
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AI Tools for Ex­is­ten­tial Security

LizkaMar 14, 2025, 6:37 PM
64 points
10 comments11 min readEA link
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In­tel­sat as a Model for In­ter­na­tional AGI Governance

rosehadsharMar 13, 2025, 12:58 PM
42 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
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Prepar­ing for the In­tel­li­gence Explosion

finmMar 11, 2025, 3:38 PM
120 points
15 comments1 min readEA link
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Forethought: A new AI macros­trat­egy group

Amrit Sidhu-Brar 🔸Mar 11, 2025, 3:36 PM
170 points
9 comments3 min readEA link