Owen Cotton-Barratt is a mathematician-turned-futurist, and a co-author of several recent Forethought articles on AI tools for epistemics and coordination. Rose Hadshar is a researcher at Forethought. Together they discuss:
Whether LLMs are now good enough to start building tools that meaningfully improve public discourse
What AI-powered reliability tracking could look like
Structured transparency and automated arms inspection — verifying compliance without revealing confidential information
Whether coordination tech is more likely to enable healthy cooperation, or collusion
The vision of a “Sensible Revolution”: moving from individual tools to background infrastructure that makes civilisational decision-making less bad
Why building thoughtful versions of these tools early could matter
Here’s a link to the full transcript.
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