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Forethought

@forethought-org.bsky.social

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Research nonprofit exploring how to navigate explosive AI progress. forethought.org

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Forethought @forethought-org.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Near-term AI could make it dramatically easier for groups to find deals, resolve disputes, and hold each other accountable. But the same tools could enable collusion and worse.

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Forethought @forethought-org.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Tools for strategic awareness could deepen people’s understanding of what’s actually going on around them, making it easier for them to make good decisions in their own interests. This would have big implications both for individuals and for collective decision-making.

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Forethought @forethought-org.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The first set of design sketches focus on collective epistemics: tools that make it easy to know what’s trustworthy and reward honesty.

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Forethought @forethought-org.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Technologies powered by near-term AI systems could transform our ability to reason and coordinate, significantly improving our chances of safely navigating the transition to advanced AI. Last week, we launched series of design sketches for specific technologies that we think could help.

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Forethought @forethought-org.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Imagine having a technological analogue to an ‘angels-on-the-shoulder’: a customised tool or tools that help you make better decisions in real time, decisions that you more deeply endorse after the fact.

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Forethought @forethought-org.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

We’re hiring! Society isn’t prepared for a world with superhuman AI. If you want to help, consider applying to one of our research roles: forethought.org/careers/res... Not sure if you’re a good fit? See more in the reply (or just apply — it doesn’t take long)

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Forethought @forethought-org.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

The ‘Better Futures’ series compares the value of working on ‘survival’ and ‘flourishing’. In ‘The Basic Case for Better Futures’, Will MacAskill and Philip Trammell describe a more formal way to model the future in those terms.

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Forethought @forethought-org.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

We're starting to post narrations of Forethought articles on our podcast feed, for people who’d prefer to listen to them. First up is ‘AI-Enabled Coups: How a Small Group Could Use AI to Seize Power’.

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Forethought @forethought-org.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

One reason to think the coming century could be pivotal is that humanity might soon race through a big fraction of what's still unexplored of the eventual tech tree. From the podcast on ‘Better Futures’ —

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Forethought @forethought-org.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

What is the difference between “survival” and “flourishing”? Will MacAskill on the better futures model, from our first video podcast:

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Forethought @forethought-org.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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? x.com/daniel_2718...

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Forethought @forethought-org.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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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