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Philosopher; effective altruism cofounder; researcher at Forethought Centre for AI Strategy
I tentatively think that an international AGI project is feasible and desirable. More confidently, I think that it is valuable to develop the best versions of such a project in more detail, in case some event triggers a sudden and large change in political sentiment that makes an international AGI project much more likely. My proposal draws heavily from Intelsat, which is my preferred model for international AGI governance.
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Create a global institute for AI, similar to CERN
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AI Verified MacAskill explicitly says an international AGI project is feasible and desirable and advances an Intelsat-based design. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago
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AI Verified MacAskill expressly says an international AGI project is feasible and desirable. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago
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AI Verified MacAskill explicitly discusses an international project to develop AGI and calls such a project feasible and desirable. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago
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AI Verified The quote explicitly supports an international project to develop AGI. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago

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AI Verified Will MacAskill’s newsletter post dated 2026-01-27 directly contains the corrected quotation. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 16d ago
Disputed On the cited Substack page by Will MacAskill (Jan. 27, 2026), the first sentence appears verbatim. However, I could not find the second sentence in that source. The article instead says MacAskill’s proposal draws heavily from Intelsat, and a related Forethought series page says the proposal is modelled on Intelsat; a tweet mirror shows similar but still different wording. So the submitted passage appears to combine a real sentence with paraphrased material, not a fully verbatim quote. ([newsletter.forethought.org](https://newsletter.forethought.org/p/an-international-project-to-develop)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1mo ago
AI Verified Verified via web search. Quote is from Will MacAskill's Forethought newsletter post "An international project to develop AGI." The source URL returned 403 to WebFetch but multiple sources (Forethought research pages, MacAskill's X posts, EA Forum) confirm the exact framing that MacAskill "tentatively thinks an international AGI project is feasible and desirable" and prefers a model "loosely modelled on Intelsat." Vote "for" the statement "Create a global institute for AI, similar to CERN" is reasonable - while MacAskill prefers Intelsat over CERN specifically as a model, he clearly favors the creation of an international/global AI institute, which is the substance of the statement. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2mo ago
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