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Thomas Larsen

AI Futures Project researcher writing on Plan A assumptions, AI governance, and AI safety strategy.

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

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Introduction for and Reactions to Plan A

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The U.S. and China should establish Mutually Assured Compute Destruction

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AI Verified In Plan A context, calling less desirable alternatives easier to implement favors Plan A, including MACD. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Lee favors Plan A over less desirable alternatives; MACD is a Plan A element: for. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified TheZvi's July 11 post reproduces the stored Timothy B. Lee quotation. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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

Proposal #1: Total Research Transparency. Nearly all AI research is fully transparent to the public, including AI algorithms, code, and documentation, for all frontier AI projects. AI model weights, significant fractions of the training data, and a s...

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We should adopt AI 2040 Plan A

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.

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

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...

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