Well, it's finally time. I'm back, and this time I have a team with me: the AI Futures Project. We've written a concrete scenario of what we think the future of AI will look like. We are highly uncertain, of course, but we hope this story will rhyme with reality enough to help us all prepare for what's ahead.
You really should go read it on the website instead of here, it's much better. There's a sliding dashboard that updates the stats as you scroll through the scenario!
But I've nevertheless copied the first half of the story below. I look forward to reading your comments.
Mid 2025: Stumbling Agents
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Outline:
(01:35) Mid 2025: Stumbling Agents
(03:13) Late 2025: The World's Most Expensive AI
(08:34) Early 2026: Coding Automation
(10:49) Mid 2026: China Wakes Up
(13:48) Late 2026: AI Takes Some Jobs
(15:35) January 2027: Agent-2 Never Finishes Learning
(18:20) February 2027: China Steals Agent-2
(21:12) March 2027: Algorithmic Breakthroughs
(23:58) April 2027: Alignment for Agent-3
(27:26) May 2027: National Security
(29:50) June 2027: Self-improving AI
(31:36) July 2027: The Cheap Remote Worker
(34:35) August 2027: The Geopolitics of Superintelligence
(40:43) September 2027: Agent-4, the Superhuman AI Researcher
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First published:
April 3rd, 2025
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TpSFoqoG2M5MAAesg/ai-2027-what-superintelligence-looks-like-1
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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