Forethought
How should we navigate explosive AI progress?
AI is already accelerating innovation, and might supercharge it in the future.
This might lead to economic abundance and better collective decision-making, or to AI-enabled dictatorships and new bioweapons.
We are a research nonprofit asking: how can we reach as good an outcome as possible? And what can we do, now, to prepare?
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How can the middle powers avoid getting trounced during the intelligence...
by Forethought, Tom_Davidson @ 2026-05-27 | +5 | 0 comments
by Forethought, Tom_Davidson @ 2026-05-27 | +5 | 0 comments
Will we really put data centers in space?
by Forethought, Aviel Parrack, finm @ 2026-05-22 | +89 | 0 comments
by Forethought, Aviel Parrack, finm @ 2026-05-22 | +89 | 0 comments
A draft honesty policy for credible communication with AI systems
by Forethought, Lukas Finnveden, Mia_Taylor, MaxDalton @ 2026-05-06 | +14 | 0 comments
by Forethought, Lukas Finnveden, Mia_Taylor, MaxDalton @ 2026-05-06 | +14 | 0 comments
AI for epistemics: the good, the bad and the ugly
by Forethought, Owen Cotton-Barratt, rosehadshar @ 2026-04-13 | +29 | 0 comments
by Forethought, Owen Cotton-Barratt, rosehadshar @ 2026-04-13 | +29 | 0 comments
Defense-favoured coordination design sketches
by Forethought, Owen Cotton-Barratt, Oliver Sourbut, Lizka, rosehadshar @ 2026-04-06 | +48 | 0 comments
by Forethought, Owen Cotton-Barratt, Oliver Sourbut, Lizka, rosehadshar @ 2026-04-06 | +48 | 0 comments
AI for AI for Epistemics
by Forethought, Owen Cotton-Barratt, Lukas Finnveden @ 2026-04-01 | +28 | 0 comments
by Forethought, Owen Cotton-Barratt, Lukas Finnveden @ 2026-04-01 | +28 | 0 comments
AI should be a good citizen, not just a good assistant
by Forethought, Tom_Davidson, William_MacAskill @ 2026-03-30 | +40 | 0 comments
by Forethought, Tom_Davidson, William_MacAskill @ 2026-03-30 | +40 | 0 comments
Concrete projects to prepare for superintelligence
by Forethought, William_MacAskill, finm @ 2026-03-27 | +54 | 0 comments
by Forethought, William_MacAskill, finm @ 2026-03-27 | +54 | 0 comments
AI character is a big deal
by Forethought, William_MacAskill, Tom_Davidson @ 2026-03-23 | +58 | 0 comments
by Forethought, William_MacAskill, Tom_Davidson @ 2026-03-23 | +58 | 0 comments
[Linkpost] Should we make grand deals about post-AGI outcomes?
by Forethought, finm @ 2026-03-13 | +18 | 0 comments
by Forethought, finm @ 2026-03-13 | +18 | 0 comments
Moral public goods are a big deal for whether we get a good future
by Forethought, Tom_Davidson, William_MacAskill, Mia_Taylor @ 2026-02-24 | +24 | 0 comments
by Forethought, Tom_Davidson, William_MacAskill, Mia_Taylor @ 2026-02-24 | +24 | 0 comments
Some tools for strategic awareness
by Forethought, Owen Cotton-Barratt, Lizka, Oliver Sourbut, rosehadshar @ 2026-02-11 | +25 | 0 comments
by Forethought, Owen Cotton-Barratt, Lizka, Oliver Sourbut, rosehadshar @ 2026-02-11 | +25 | 0 comments
Lit review of some international organisations
by Forethought, rosehadshar @ 2026-02-10 | +9 | 0 comments
by Forethought, rosehadshar @ 2026-02-10 | +9 | 0 comments
Some angel-on-the-shoulder AI tools
by Forethought, Owen Cotton-Barratt, Lizka, Oliver Sourbut, rosehadshar @ 2026-02-09 | +62 | 0 comments
by Forethought, Owen Cotton-Barratt, Lizka, Oliver Sourbut, rosehadshar @ 2026-02-09 | +62 | 0 comments
Some tools for collective epistemics
by Forethought, Owen Cotton-Barratt, Lizka, Oliver Sourbut @ 2026-02-06 | +71 | 0 comments
by Forethought, Owen Cotton-Barratt, Lizka, Oliver Sourbut @ 2026-02-06 | +71 | 0 comments
Idea: the intelligence explosion convention
by Forethought, William_MacAskill @ 2026-02-05 | +26 | 0 comments
by Forethought, William_MacAskill @ 2026-02-05 | +26 | 0 comments
Design international AI projects with DAID in mind
by Forethought, William_MacAskill @ 2026-02-03 | +30 | 0 comments
by Forethought, William_MacAskill @ 2026-02-03 | +30 | 0 comments
Thoughts on AGI and world government
by Forethought, William_MacAskill, rosehadshar @ 2026-01-29 | +17 | 0 comments
by Forethought, William_MacAskill, rosehadshar @ 2026-01-29 | +17 | 0 comments
My favourite version of an international AGI project
by Forethought, William_MacAskill @ 2026-01-27 | +16 | 0 comments
by Forethought, William_MacAskill @ 2026-01-27 | +16 | 0 comments
Are Short AI Timelines Really Higher-Leverage?
by Forethought, William_MacAskill, Mia_Taylor @ 2026-01-23 | +36 | 0 comments
by Forethought, William_MacAskill, Mia_Taylor @ 2026-01-23 | +36 | 0 comments
ML research directions for preventing catastrophic data poisoning
by Forethought, Tom_Davidson @ 2026-01-07 | +9 | 0 comments
by Forethought, Tom_Davidson @ 2026-01-07 | +9 | 0 comments
Could space debris block access to outer space?
by Forethought, finm @ 2025-12-17 | +24 | 0 comments
by Forethought, finm @ 2025-12-17 | +24 | 0 comments
Will the Need to Retrain AI Models from Scratch Block a Software Intelligence...
by Forethought, Tom_Davidson @ 2025-03-28 | +12 | 0 comments
by Forethought, Tom_Davidson @ 2025-03-28 | +12 | 0 comments
Will AI R&D Automation Cause a Software Intelligence Explosion?
by Forethought, Daniel_Eth, Tom_Davidson @ 2025-03-26 | +32 | 0 comments
by Forethought, Daniel_Eth, Tom_Davidson @ 2025-03-26 | +32 | 0 comments