AI 2040: Plan A
What's happening
A new scenario called "AI 2040: Plan A" lays out a positive vision for advanced AI. It proposes the U.S. lead an effort to delay superintelligence until 2040, push for much more public and transparent AI research, allow many companies worldwide to catch up to the frontier, and build data centers in democratic countries (snippet cuts off). The document is being shared across communities (Hacker News, r/artificial) and was published by the same authors who wrote the earlier "AI 2027" scenario about catastrophic risk.
Why it's trending
Because the authors of a high-profile AI risk scenario have released a contrasting blueprint focused on cooperation, transparency and delaying superintelligence to 2040.
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Forget 'race to superintelligence' headlines, Plan A bets on delaying superintelligence to 2040 and making research public: bold, and it turns the usual competition story on its head.
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- [Linkpost] AI 2040: A Scenario of How AI Could Go Well
The people who wrote AI 2027, the scenario about how AI could kill us all if things keep going at this speed, just released a new scenario about how to make AI go really well for humanity. TLDR: The U.S. leads an effort to delay superintelligence until 2040, make AI research much more public and transparent, let many companies around the world catch up to the frontier, and build datacenters in del
r/artificialJul 9 - AI 2040: Plan Ar/artificialJul 9
- AI 2040: Plan AHackerNewsJul 9
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