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?

Posts

Some tools for strategic awareness
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
UN charter case study
by Forethought @ 2026-02-10 | +8 | 0 comments
Some angel-on-the-shoulder AI tools
by Forethought, Owen Cotton-Barratt, Lizka, Oliver Sourbut, rosehadshar @ 2026-02-09 | +56 | 0 comments
Some tools for collective epistemics
by Forethought, Owen Cotton-Barratt, Lizka, Oliver Sourbut @ 2026-02-06 | +67 | 0 comments
Idea: the intelligence explosion convention
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 | +28 | 0 comments
Thoughts on AGI and world government
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
Are Short AI Timelines Really Higher-Leverage?
by Forethought, William_MacAskill, Mia_Taylor @ 2026-01-23 | +34 | 0 comments
Is Flourishing Predetermined?
by Forethought, finm @ 2026-01-21 | +26 | 0 comments
ML research directions for preventing catastrophic data poisoning
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
Forethought has room for more funding
by Forethought, MaxDalton @ 2025-11-21 | +97 | 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
Will AI R&D Automation Cause a Software Intelligence Explosion?
by Forethought, Daniel_Eth, Tom_Davidson @ 2025-03-26 | +32 | 0 comments