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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. [...] My favourite version of an international AGI project is loosely modelled on Intelsat, an international project that developed the first global satellite communications network.
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Create a global institute for AI, similar to CERN
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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 · 18d 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 · 1mo ago
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