AI Futures Project calls for delaying superintelligence development to 2040
The AI Futures Project, a nonprofit research foundation behind a 2025 report predicting dire AI outcomes, has released a new essay calling for deliberately slowing the development of superintelligent AI. Their proposal suggests delaying superintelligence development to 2040 to give the world time to prepare for its arrival, arguing that while development cannot be stopped entirely, it can be paced responsibly.
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To avoid dangerous outcomes from superintelligent AI, slow everything down.
If you delay the...
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