Ajeya Cotra on Require frontier AI labs to conduct nea…

Ajeya Cotra

AI safety researcher; senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy

Total research transparency would fundamentally and radically simplify the task of governing AI alignment: both figuring out what the rules should be in the first place, and then actually enforcing them.

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Ajeya Cotra, “Total research transparency would be nice,” Planned Obsolescence, July 10, 2026.

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

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AI Unverifiable The source favors total research transparency but does not establish a stance on the statement's separate requirement to keep model weights closed. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1mo ago

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AI Verified Ajeya Cotra's Planned Obsolescence post, 10 Jul 2026, contains this sentence verbatim. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1mo ago

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AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence

AI R&D is fully automated in the middle of a year and this kicks off a rapid intelligence explosion that leads to very broadly superhuman AI.

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

I think that what we want to do as a society, if we gain confidence that we’re at the starting point of this intelligence explosion, is to redirect as much of that AI labour as we can from further AI R&D to things that could help protect us from futu...

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