The "most important century" series of blog posts argues that the 21st century could be the most important century ever for humanity, via the development of advanced AI systems that could dramatically speed up scientific and technological advancement, getting us more quickly than most people imagine to a deeply unfamiliar| Cold Takes
Collected data and analysis from a large survey of machine learning researchers.| AI Impacts
In 1972, the Nobel prize-winning physicist Philip Anderson wrote the essay " More Is Different [https://science.sciencemag.org/content/177/4047/393]". In it, he argues that quantitative changes can lead to qualitatively different and unexpected phenomena. While he focused on physics, one can find many examples of More is| Bounded Regret
Last August, my research group created a forecasting contest [https://bounded-regret.ghost.io/ai-forecasting/] to predict AI progress on four benchmarks. Forecasts were asked to predict state-of-the-art performance (SOTA) on each benchmark for June 30th 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. It’s now past June 30th, so we can evaluate| Bounded Regret