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Podcast Newsletter Research About Support Contact About us We are a research nonprofit focused on how to navigate the transition to a world with superintelligent AI systems. AI systems might soon be much more capable than humans, quickly leading to rapid technological development. Our analysis suggests that when AI can substitute for human researchers, we will see very rapid technological development: a century’s worth of progress compressed into years. Issues that seem sci-fi today may become reality this decade. We might see new miracle drugs and new bioweapons; automated companies and automated militaries; superhuman prediction and superhuman persuasion. These technologies thrust critical challenges on us: to control increasingly powerful AI systems, to ensure we share our new abundance, to figure out how AI can improve our collective reasoning and coordination, to work out what rights to give digital minds, and more. We try to understand what’s coming and sketch a path to a flouri

About Forethought About us We are a research nonprofit focused on how to navigate the transition to a world with superintelligent AI systems. AI systems might soon be much more capable than humans, quickly leading to rapid technological development. Our analysis suggests that when AI can substitute for human researchers, we will see very rapid technological development: a century’s worth of progress compressed into years. Issues that seem sci-fi today may become reality this decade. We might see new miracle drugs and new bioweapons; automated companies and automated militaries; superhuman pred

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