AI Futures Project
Daniel Kokotajlo, Hamish Low, Miles Kodama, Joshua Turner, Ryan Greenblatt, Eli Lifland, Romeo Dean, Thomas Larsen, Brendan HalsteadPreparing for a world with AGI
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How to pace the US frontier
Introduction
Last week, the Pacing the Frontier open letter, signed by over 1,000 frontier AI employees, requested “the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately...
Plan A: Suggestions For Further Work
Yesterday we released AI 2040: Plan A, but there’s lots of work left to do.
We still have tons of uncertainty about the future of AI and the best strategies for how humanity can successfully chart a path through the intelligence explosion....
AI 2040: Plan A
For the past year, we at the AI Futures Project have been sinking most of our time into our next big scenario. Now it’s done!
It’s called AI 2040: Plan A.
It’s called Plan A because it’s a recommendation, not a prediction. It’s what...
A forecast of Chinese DUV and EUV photolithography progress
This post was written in collaboration between the AI Futures Project and The Substrate and cross-posted to both.
Restrictions on photolithography machines are a crucial bottleneck for China’s AI chip efforts. To get around them, China nee...
Q1 2026 Timelines Update
We’re mostly focused on research and writing for our next big scenario, but we’re also continuing to think about AI timelines and takeoff speeds, monitoring the evidence as it comes in, and adjusting our expectations accordingly. We’re tent...
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
Was a philosophy PhD student, left to work at AI Impacts, then Center on Long-Term Risk, then OpenAI. Quit OpenAI due to losing confidence that it would behave responsibly around the time of AGI. Now executive director of the AI Futures Project.
Research Associate at IAPS
I study physics at Williams College and blog at mkodama.org.
AI policy and other things
I work at Redwood Research on technical AI security+safety research.
AGI forecasting and governance researcher at AI Futures Project
Researcher at AI Futures Project
I was a coauthor on AI 2027 and work as a researcher for the AI Futures Project.
Brendan helped develop the AI Futures Model.
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