RSS

Forethought

Karma: 853

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?

Forethought has room for more funding

Forethought21 Nov 2025 15:42 UTC
97 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Could one coun­try out­grow the rest of the world?

Tom_Davidson21 Aug 2025 15:41 UTC
19 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

The tra­jec­tory of the fu­ture could soon get set in stone

William_MacAskill11 Aug 2025 11:04 UTC
34 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Will morally mo­ti­vated ac­tors steer us to­wards a near-best fu­ture?

William_MacAskill8 Aug 2025 18:29 UTC
47 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

How hard to achieve is eu­topia?

William_MacAskill6 Aug 2025 17:43 UTC
56 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

How quick and big would a soft­ware in­tel­li­gence ex­plo­sion be?

Tom_Davidson5 Aug 2025 15:47 UTC
12 points
2 comments34 min readEA link

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

William_MacAskill4 Aug 2025 14:27 UTC
163 points
70 comments5 min readEA link

The In­dus­trial Explosion

rosehadshar26 Jun 2025 14:41 UTC
39 points
1 comment15 min readEA link
(www.forethought.org)

AI-en­abled coups: a small group could use AI to seize power

Tom_Davidson16 Apr 2025 16:51 UTC
123 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

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

Lizka2 Apr 2025 21:37 UTC
40 points
20 comments17 min readEA link
(www.forethought.org)

Will the Need to Re­train AI Models from Scratch Block a Soft­ware In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion?

Forethought28 Mar 2025 13:43 UTC
12 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.forethought.org)

Will AI R&D Au­toma­tion Cause a Soft­ware In­tel­li­gence Ex­plo­sion?

Forethought26 Mar 2025 15:37 UTC
32 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(www.forethought.org)

Three Types of In­tel­li­gence Explosion

rosehadshar17 Mar 2025 14:47 UTC
45 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(www.forethought.org)

AI Tools for Ex­is­ten­tial Security

Lizka14 Mar 2025 18:37 UTC
64 points
10 comments11 min readEA link
(www.forethought.org)

In­tel­sat as a Model for In­ter­na­tional AGI Governance

rosehadshar13 Mar 2025 12:58 UTC
42 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.forethought.org)

Prepar­ing for the In­tel­li­gence Explosion

finm11 Mar 2025 15:38 UTC
120 points
15 comments1 min readEA link
(www.forethought.org)

Forethought: A new AI macros­trat­egy group

Amrit Sidhu-Brar 🔸11 Mar 2025 15:36 UTC
174 points
10 comments3 min readEA link