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Politics and Power Post-Automation
A podcast interview with David Duvenaud
Sep 25 • Forethought

Is Gradual Disempowerment Inevitable?
A podcast interview with Raymond Douglas
Sep 9 • Forethought
Should AI Agents Obey Human Laws?
A podcast interview with Cullen O'Keefe
Aug 28 • Forethought and Fin Moorhouse
Could one country outgrow the rest of the world?
When countries grow at the same exponential rate, they maintain their relative sizes. But after we develop AGI, there may be a period of…
Aug 21 • Tom Davidson
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How Can We Prevent AI-Enabled Coups?
A podcast interview with Tom Davidson
Aug 17 • Forethought
How to make the future better (other than by reducing extinction risk)
A summary of a new essay.
Aug 15 • Will MacAskill
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The trajectory of the future could soon get set in stone
A summary of our new paper, "Persistent Path-Dependence."
Aug 11 • Will MacAskill
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Will morally motivated actors steer us towards a near-best future?
A summary of our new paper, “Convergence and Compromise”.
Aug 8 • Will MacAskill and Fin Moorhouse
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How Quick and Big Would a Software Intelligence Explosion Be?
AI systems may soon fully automate AI R&D.
Aug 7 • Tom Davidson and Tom Houlden
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Is eutopia the default outcome post-AGI?
In the new paper “No Easy Eutopia”, we argue that reaching a truly great future will be very hard.
Aug 6 • Will MacAskill and Fin Moorhouse
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Should we aim for flourishing over mere survival?
The Better Futures series.
Aug 4 • Will MacAskill
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Should We Aim for Flourishing Over Mere Survival?
A podcast interview with Will MacAskill
Aug 4 • Forethought
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