Thomas Larsen

We recommend scaling quickly to AIs that are as capable as top human experts, and only then pause as the world is being widely transformed.

Finally, I’m also excited about scenarios for plans that are less desirable than Plan A which may be easier to implement.

I’m confident that a cooperative international approach (Plan A) is better than the alternatives because the alternatives involve being in a race during the intelligence explosion, which incurs huge risks. I’m not confident about the exact variant of...

The plan calls for carefully reasoned interventions so the development would happen over the course of many, many years, maybe a decade or so, as opposed to just a single year.

Use measures like the windfall clause to distribute profits over a large threshold back into the population.