Eli Lifland on We should adopt AI 2040 Plan A

Eli Lifland

AI Futures Project researcher writing on AI capability scaling, controlled takeoff, and comparative AI governance plans.

Excited to finally publish AI 2040: Plan A, our plan for international coordination to get to a great AI future.

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We should adopt AI 2040 Plan A

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AI Verified The sourced Eli Lifland quote directly evaluates AI 2040 Plan A or its implementation and signals a stance on adopting it. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1mo ago

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AI Verified Verified verbatim and attributed to Eli Lifland in Zvi Mowshowitz, “Introduction for and Reactions to Plan A” (LessWrong, 2026-07-11). · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1mo ago

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

Excited to finally publish AI 2040: Plan A, our plan for international coordination to get to a great AI future. We’ve put a lot of work into this and I hope that it sparks alternative plans that bring us closer to treating superintelligence with the...

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

In the Plan A scenario, why does the Consortium choose to steadily increase capabilities until reaching top-expert-dominating AI (TED-AI) in 2035, then slow down nearly to a pause until handing off to these AIs in 2040? [...] Scale until you’re close...

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