Against Maxipok

Existential risk isn’t everything

19 hrs ago • Will MacAskill and Guive Assadi

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What sort of post-superintelligence society should we aim for?

The case for ‘viatopia’: a state of society that is on track for a near-best future, whatever that might look like.

Jan 7 • Will MacAskill

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ML research directions for preventing catastrophic data poisoning

This article was created by Forethought. See the original on our website.

Jan 7 • Tom Davidson

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December 2025

Why Make Deals with Misaligned AIs?

A podcast interview with Lukas Finnveden

Dec 19, 2025 • Forethought and Fin Moorhouse

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Could Space Debris Block Access to Outer Space?

New research asks whether deliberately-caused Kessler syndrome could block access to space — and what countermeasures might work.

Dec 17, 2025 • Fin Moorhouse

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Checks, Balances, and Power Concentration

A conversation with Rose Hadshar and Nora Ammann

Dec 16, 2025 • Forethought

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How important is the model spec if alignment fails?

(These are rough research notes.)

Dec 3, 2025 • Mia Taylor

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November 2025

Consciousness and Competition

A podcast interview with Joe Carlsmith

Nov 28, 2025 • Forethought and Fin Moorhouse

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October 2025

Bootstrapping to Viatopia

Like many people, I have quite a lot of stuff that I’ve written that exists only in googledoc form.

Oct 14, 2025 • Forethought and Will MacAskill

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We’re hiring researchers!

Forethought is hiring researchers to work on important questions related to navigating rapid AI progress.

Oct 11, 2025 • Forethought

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Re-introducing ForeCast

Forethought has a podcast

Oct 8, 2025 • Forethought

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September 2025

Politics and Power Post-Automation

A podcast interview with David Duvenaud

Sep 25, 2025 • Forethought

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