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AI Futures Project

Nonprofit AI forecasting research group behind AI 2027 and Plan A; led by Daniel Kokotajlo.

Between 2030 and 2035, we scale within the human range, to AIs that are roughly as capable as top human experts... In 2035, we pause at top-human-expert level AI in order to maintain human control. In 2040, we unpause and scale to superintelligence.

AI Verified (Jul 9, 2026)

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AI 2040: Plan A

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Pausing AI at human-genius level to solve alignment is safer than either racing to superintelligence or halting entirely

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AI Verified The quote explicitly proposes pausing at top-human-expert-level AI to maintain human control, which is directly relevant to the pause statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified The quote proposes pausing at top-human-expert-level AI to maintain human control, so the recorded 'for' answer matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified AI 2040 Plan A page contains the quoted 2035 pause-at-human-expert-level timeline; the quote matches the source text. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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We should adopt AI 2040 Plan A

We recommend an international deal to avoid a dangerous race to superintelligence.

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Ban open source AI models capable of creating WMDs

However, we recommend against publicly releasing frontier model weights.

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Require frontier AI labs to conduct nearly all R&D publicly but keep the weights closed

Plan A is not that crazy, but it’s close: the algorithms are mandated to be open source, and while the weights aren’t (in fact the weights are banned from being OS), access to the weights is mandated to be open; members of the public can do evaluatio...

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