Schlaraffenland (1567), the land of milk and honey Say we achieve abundance—what becomes of our souls? Transformative AI may soon lift us from the material constraints that have long shaped civilisation. In this essay, I explore how a species forged in struggle might fare in a world without it. I....
Introduction Why hasn't AI automated away more professions? One way of investigating this question is to compare the skills that real jobs require with current AI systems' capabilities. As long as there's a gap between these two, full automation is unfeasible. One important limitation is that AI systems cannot yet...
In this blog post, we analyse how the recent AI 2027 forecast by Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland, and Romeo Dean has been discussed across Chinese language platforms. We present: 1. Our research methodology and synthesis of key findings across media artefacts 2. A proposal for how...