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Superhuman AI in a Normal Age | Zhengdong

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Two recent visions of AI have gained traction. The first is AI 2027 (April 3, 2025), which details a scenario in which AI rapidly self-improves. In this vision, AI outperforms the best humans in physical tasks, political acumen, and predicting the future by 2028, and humanity either terraforms the solar system with its help or is extinct by its hand by 2035. The second is AI as Normal Technology (April 15, 2025), which articulates a framework where AI is a “normal” general-purpose technology, like electricity and the internet. Diffusion is slow, and while the future is very different from today, it is also much the same. In the last three months, the authors of both pieces visited Google DeepMind to present their work. I also participated in a tabletop simulation of AI 2027 that its authors ran, so I’m in the lucky position of having some time to think about both. This is a third vision of AI, one where I take the ideas of AI 2027 and AI as Normal Technology that resonate with me. I’ll

Superhuman AI in a Normal Age | Zhengdong Superhuman AI in a Normal Age | Zhengdong Wang [home] | [all posts] Superhuman AI in a Normal Age 2025-07-10 16:40 BST Two recent visions of AI have gained traction . The first is AI 2027 (April 3, 2025), which details a scenario in which AI rapidly self-improves. In this vision, AI outperforms the best humans in physical tasks, political acumen, and predicting the future by 2028, and humanity either terraforms the solar system with its help or is extinct by its hand by 2035. The second is AI as Normal Technology (April 15, 2025), which articulates a f

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