AI 2027 authors release AI 2040 'Plan A': delay superintelligence, open research, and mutually assured compute destruction
Hacubu · x · 2026-09-10
The AI 2027 authors (Kokotajlo, Greenblatt, Lifland, et al.) released 'Plan A', the optimistic follow-up scenario in their AI 2040 project.
- Core proposal: humanity delays superintelligence until 2040, makes all AI research public, lets dozens of companies worldwide reach the frontier, and deliberately enters a regime of mutually assured compute destruction.
- The plan is a policy recommendation, not a prediction: informed by frontier-lab experts, tabletop exercises, and national-security discussions, it calls for an international deal enforcing total research transparency and verifiable guardrails.
- The piece contrasts Plan A with four alternatives (B, C, D, S), and the authors stress the implementation path isn't their forecast — but the downstream effects depicted are predictions.
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