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AI 2040: Plan A

Named collective policy scenario published by the AI Futures Project in 2026, advocating an internationally verified slowdown of frontier AI development.

The result is multiple companies across multiple countries scaling slowly and safely together towards superintelligence, instead of racing each other in secrecy.

AI Verified (Jul 2026)

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AI 2040: Plan A, published by the AI Futures Project, July 2026.

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Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed

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AI Verified Quote explicitly favors coordinated slow, safe scaling over a race. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Recorded for; Favors coordinated slow and safe scaling over a race. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

Slow down AI development

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AI Verified Full-claim match: the quote addresses AI development/capability growth and a slower pace, pause, halt, or explicit rejection/mixed position. Evidence: The result is multiple companies across multiple countries scaling slowly and safely together towards superintelligence, instead of racing each other in secrecy. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 10d ago

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AI Verified Recorded for matches the quote's stance on slowing AI development. Evidence: The result is multiple companies across multiple countries scaling slowly and safely together towards superintelligence, instead of racing each other in secrecy. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 10d ago

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AI Verified AI 2040: Plan A contains this wording as the named plan’s text. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence

AI companies will probably succeed at their stated goal of building smarter-than-human AI systems within the next 1 to 10 years. [...] AI companies succeed at automating their research and accelerating towards superintelligence.

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