Forethought

AI Rights for Human Safety (with Peter Salib and Simon Goldstein) Peter Salib is an assistant professor of law at the University of Houston, and Simon Goldstein is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. We discuss their paper ‘AI Rights for Human Safety’. To see all our published research,

New podcast episode with Peter Salib and Simon Goldstein on their article ‘AI Rights for Human Safety’.

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09.07.2025 19:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Inference Scaling, AI Agents, and Moratoria (with Toby Ord) Toby Ord is a Senior Researcher at Oxford University. We discuss the ‘scaling paradox’, inference scaling and its implications, ways to interpret trends in the length of tasks AI agents can complete, and some unpublished thoughts on lessons from scientifi

New podcast episode with @tobyord.bsky.social — on inference scaling, time horizons for AI agents, lessons from scientific moratoria, and more.

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16.06.2025 10:36 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

New report: “Will AI R&D Automation Cause a Software Intelligence Explosion?” 

As AI R&D is automated, AI progress may dramatically accelerate. Skeptics counter that hardware stock can only grow so fast. But what if software advances alone can sustain acceleration?

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Today we’re putting out our first paper, which gives an overview of these challenges. Read it here: www.forethought.org/research/pr...

11.03.2025 15:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

At Forethought, we’re doing research to help us understand the opportunities and challenges that AI-driven technological change will bring, and to help us figure out what we can do, now, to prepare.

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And this might happen blisteringly fast – our analysis suggests we’re likely to see a century’s worth of technological progress in less than a decade. Our current institutions were not designed for such rapid change. We need to prepare in advance.

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AI might help us to create many new technologies, and with them new opportunities – from economic abundance to enhanced collective decision-making – and new challenges – from extreme concentration of power to new weapons of mass destruction.

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Two years ago, AI systems were close to random guessing at PhD-level science questions. Now they beat human experts. As they continue to become smarter and more agentic, they may begin to significantly accelerate technological development. What happens next?

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