“AI 2027: Dwarkesh’s Podcast with Daniel Kokotajlo and Scott Alexander” by Zvi

Daniel Kokotajlo has launched AI 2027, Scott Alexander introduces it here. AI 2027 is a serious attempt to write down what the future holds. His ‘What 2026 Looks Like’ was very concrete and specific, and has proved remarkably accurate given the difficulty level of such predictions.

I’ve had the opportunity to play the wargame version of the scenario described in 2027, and I reviewed the website prior to publication and offered some minor notes. Whenever I refer to a ‘scenario’ in this post I’m talking about Scenario 2027.

There's tons of detail here. The research here, and the supporting evidence and citations and explanations, blow everything out of the water. It's vastly more than we usually see, and dramatically different from saying ‘oh I expect AGI in 2027’ or giving a timeline number. This lets us look at what happens in concrete detail, figure out where we [...]

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First published:
April 7th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vnkH6JrGu2AxtDTyu/ai-2027-dwarkesh-s-podcast-with-daniel-kokotajlo-and-scott

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