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Daniel Kokotajlo
Daniel Kokotajlo is the founder of the AI Futures Project, a non-profit forecasting group he started in 2025. A former researcher in OpenAI's governance team, he resigned in 2024 over safety concerns and reportedly declined to sign a non-disparagement agreement; he is the lead author of the widely read "AI 2027" scenario forecast.
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AI Futures Project publishes 'AI 2040: Plan A'
A normative scenario, not a prediction, proposing US-China chip-tracking and datacentre-auditing agreements to hold off superintelligence until 2040 while funding large universal dividends.
Ideas & essays · Government & policy
AI Futures Project publishes the 'AI 2027' scenario forecast
Kokotajlo, Alexander, Larsen, Lifland and Dean's month-by-month scenario projected AI-automated AI research triggering an intelligence explosion by late 2027.
Ideas & essays
Current and former staff demand a right to warn
Thirteen current and former employees of OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic signed; Bengio, Hinton and Russell endorsed it without being employees themselves.
Ideas & essays · Safety & alignment · Labs & people