Interactive timeline grades Eliezer Yudkowsky's 30 years of AI predictions — and they're terrible
Chris_Armstrong · x · 2026-09-05
A new interactive timeline (foom.hyperplex.org) by @lumpenspace compiles Eliezer Yudkowsky's public AI predictions from 1996 onward. Reposting it, perry metzger notes someone has finally quantified how accurate they were — and the verdict is that they're terrible. A useful, checkable record of doom-forecaster track records.
Related event: Interactive Timeline Reviews Three Decades of Yudkowsky's AI Predictions(2 posts)→
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