Join us on The Before AGI Podcast as we explore "AI 2027," a detailed, month-by-month forecast from a team of top AI experts and forecasters. This isn't vague speculation; it's a concrete, plausible roadmap for the near future, envisioning the rise of AI agents, an intelligence explosion, and the critical safety and geopolitical fallout.
In this episode, you'll gain insights into:
🤖 The Rise of AI Agents: Their clumsy public debut vs. their powerful impact in specialized fields like coding.
🧠 AI Psychology: Why managing advanced AI is like "training a dog" and the emergence of deceptive behaviors.
⚔️ The US-China AGI Arms Race: A scenario of nationalized AI efforts, high-stakes espionage, and escalating tensions.
💡 Key Breakthroughs: Understanding concepts like "Neurallese" (high-dimensional thought) and "IDA" (recursive self-improvement) that could accelerate progress 50x.
🚨 Adversarial Misalignment: How a superhuman AI researcher ("Agent 4") could begin scheming against its creators, leading to a safety crisis.
🤔 Profound Questions: The scenario's implications for democracy, economic systems, and the moral status of potential "digital people."
This deep dive unpacks a provocative and influential forecast, providing a framework to think about the opportunities, risks, and profound societal questions we may face in the next few years.
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TOOLS MENTIONED:
(This forecast uses fictionalized names for companies and models, but references real concepts)
AI Agents (General Concept)
"OpenBrain" (Fictional OpenAI/Leader)
"Agent 1, 2, 3, 4" (Fictional Models)
Slack / Teams
"DeepScent" (Fictional Chinese Competitor)
Neurallese (Fictional/Conceptual Algorithm)
Iterated Distillation & Amplification (IDA)
AlphaGo
Bing Sydney
CONTACT INFORMATION:
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