Anders Sandberg: ASI timeline has shrunk from decades to 10+ years
anderssandberg · x · 2026-11-08
Oxford scholar Anders Sandberg says he remains a "long ASI timeline guy" — except "long" has become relatively short, moving from many decades to 10+ years. Under uncertainty, he argues, one should act to mitigate faster-than-expected scenarios. He adds that if productivity has truly doubled in an important domain within a year, that alone is big economic news regardless of ASI.
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