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The Industrial Explosion

Once AI can automate human labour, positive feedback loops could lead to a rapid increase in physical capabilities as well as cognitive ones.

Jun 26 •

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May 2025

Human Takeover Might be Worse than AI Takeover

Some are concerned that future AI systems could take over the world.

May 28 •

April 2025

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

The development of AI that is more broadly capable than humans will create a new and serious threat: AI-enabled coups. An AI-enabled coup is most likely…

Apr 16 •

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

Advanced AI could unlock an era of enlightened and competent government action. But without smart, active investment, we’ll squander that opportunity…

Apr 2 •

March 2025

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

Once AI fully automates AI R&D, there might be a period of fast and accelerating software progress – a software intelligence explosion (SIE).

Mar 28 •

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

Empirical evidence suggests that, if AI automates AI research, feedback loops could overcome diminishing returns, significantly accelerating AI…

Mar 26 •

Should There Be Just One Western AGI Project?

There have been recent discussions of centralizing western AGI development, for instance through a Manhattan Project for AI.

Mar 21 •

AI Tools for Existential Security

Rapid AI progress is the greatest driver of existential risk in the world today. But — if handled correctly — it could also empower humanity to face…

Mar 19 •

Three Types of Intelligence Explosion

Once AI systems can design and build even more capable AI systems, we could see an intelligence explosion, where AI capabilities rapidly increase to…

Mar 17 •

Intelsat as a Model for International AGI Governance

If there is an international project to build artificial general intelligence (“AGI”), how should it be designed?

Mar 14 •

Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion

Imagine all the scientific, intellectual and technological developments that you would expect to see by the year 2125, if technological progress…

Mar 11 •

February 2025

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Feb 14 •

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