MacAskill & Moorhouse: intelligence explosion could compress a century of progress into a decade
zetalyrae · x · 2026-09-10
William MacAskill and Fin Moorhouse publish "Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion" (with a 1h51m podcast discussion). Core thesis: research-accelerating AI could drive a century of technological progress in a few years, surfacing rapid, hard-to-reverse "grand challenges": new WMDs, AI-enabled autocracies, races for offworld resources, digital minds deserving moral consideration — alongside abundance and better collective decision-making. The report maps which challenges must be solved early, which windows close first, and argues for AGI preparedness now rather than punting problems to aligned superintelligence.
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