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Philosopher; effective altruism cofounder; researcher at Forethought Centre for AI Strategy
AGI preparedness is not just about ensuring that advanced AI systems are aligned: we should be preparing, now, for the disorienting range of developments an intelligence explosion would bring — including new weapons of mass destruction, AI-enabled autocracies, races to grab offworld resources, and digital beings worthy of moral consideration. These challenges cannot always be delegated to future AI systems.
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AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence
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Disputed Disputed: the cited EA Forum URL does not contain the stored wording verbatim. It presents the ideas as separate sentences in a different order (challenge examples first, then the non-delegation claim, then the AGI-preparedness claim), so the stored text is a stitched/reordered paraphrase rather than an exact quote. The attribution is also not a verifiable single-author quote on that source: the EA Forum post is dated March 11, 2025 and lists multiple authors (finm, William_MacAskill, Forethought), and the underlying Forethought paper is co-authored by William MacAskill and Fin Moorhouse. ([forum.effectivealtruism.org](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/boWLMTtv6BZGAWjrS/preparing-for-the-intelligence-explosion)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
Disputed Disputed: the reliable source I found is the co-authored paper “Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion,” attributed to William MacAskill and Fin Moorhouse, not to MacAskill alone. In the source, the text appears in a different order: first the sentence beginning “These challenges include...,” then “We argue that these challenges cannot always be delegated...,” and only then “AGI preparedness is therefore not just about...”. The submitted version rearranges those sentences, inserts “including” to splice them together, omits text without using [...], and the year given is 2026, while the paper is dated 2025. ([forum.effectivealtruism.org](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forethought.org%2Fpreparing-for-the-intelligence-explosion)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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