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ForeCast is a podcast from Forethought, where we hear from the authors about new research.

Episode Date
Liberalism Forever (with Peter Salib and Simon Goldstein)
Jul 31, 2026
Should Philanthropists Save Their Money for the Intelligence Explosion? (with Tom Davidson and Will MacAskill)
Jul 30, 2026
Will We Put Data Centers In Space? (with Avi Parrack)
Jul 07, 2026
How Fast Is Post-AGI Growth? (with Damon Binder)
Jul 05, 2026
[AI Narration] Risk-Averse AIs
Jun 24, 2026
Could AI Help Solve Philosophy? (with Wei Dai)
Jun 19, 2026
[AI Narration] What should go in a model spec?
Jun 04, 2026
[AI Narration] Will We Really Put Data Centers in Space?
May 22, 2026
[AI Narration] Stickiness in AI Behavioral Design
May 13, 2026
[AI Narration] A draft honesty policy for credible communication with AI systems
May 06, 2026
[AI Narration] The Saturation View
Apr 24, 2026
[AI Narration] Desired behaviour for AI advising humans on important decisions
Apr 17, 2026
AI for Civilizational Sanity (with Rose Hadshar and Owen Cotton-Barratt)
Apr 15, 2026
[AI Narration] AI impacts on epistemics: the good, the bad and the ugly
Apr 12, 2026
[AI Narration] Design sketches: defense-favoured coordination tech
Apr 05, 2026
[AI Narration] AI for AI for Epistemics
Apr 01, 2026
[AI Narration] AI should (sometimes) be proactively prosocial
Mar 29, 2026
[AI Narration] Is labor a luxury in the long run?
Mar 27, 2026
[AI Narration] Concrete Projects in AGI Preparedness
Mar 26, 2026
[AI Narration] The importance of AI character
Mar 23, 2026
[AI Narration] Broad Timelines
Mar 16, 2026
[AI Narration] Should We Lock in Post-AGI Agreements Under Uncertainty?
Mar 13, 2026
Will Automation Cause Runaway Inequality? (with Phil Trammell)
Mar 03, 2026
[AI Narration] Moral public goods are a big deal for whether we get a good future
Feb 22, 2026
Can Liberal Democracy Survive AGI? (with Sam Hammond)
Feb 11, 2026
[AI Narration] Design sketches: tools for strategic awareness
Feb 10, 2026
[AI Narration] Design sketches for a more sensible world
Feb 04, 2026
[AI Narration] Design Sketches: Angels-on-the-Shoulder
Jan 28, 2026
Should There Be an International AGI Project? (with Rose Hadshar)
Jan 27, 2026
[AI Narration] An overview of some international organisations, with their voting structures
Jan 25, 2026
[AI Narration] The UN Charter: a case study in international governance
Jan 25, 2026
[AI Narration] What an international project to develop AGI should look like
Jan 25, 2026
[AI Narration] The International AGI Project Series
Jan 25, 2026
[AI Narration] AGI and World Government
Jan 25, 2026
[AI Narration] International AI projects and differential AI development
Jan 25, 2026
[AI Narration] A global convention to govern the intelligence explosion
Jan 25, 2026
When Will AI Transform the Physical World? (with Tom Davidson and Will MacAskill)
Jan 22, 2026
[AI Narration] Short Timelines Aren't Obviously Higher-Leverage
Jan 21, 2026
[AI Narration] Beyond Existential Risk
Jan 20, 2026
[AI Narration] Is Flourishing Predetermined?
Jan 20, 2026
[AI Narration] Viatopia
Jan 06, 2026
[AI Narration] ML research directions for preventing catastrophic data poisoning
Jan 06, 2026
[AI Narration] Design Sketches: Collective Epistemics
Dec 24, 2025
Why Make Deals with Misaligned AIs? (with Lukas Finnveden)
Dec 19, 2025
[AI Narration] The first type of transformative AI?
Dec 17, 2025
[AI Narration] Space Debris and Launch Denial
Dec 16, 2025
Checks, Balances, and Power Concentration (with Rose Hadshar and Nora Ammann)
Dec 12, 2025
Consciousness and Competition (with Joe Carlsmith)
Nov 28, 2025
Forethought is Hiring Researchers (with Mia Taylor)
Oct 13, 2025
[Article] Introducing Better Futures
Oct 07, 2025
Politics and Power Post-Automation (with David Duvenaud)
Sep 25, 2025
[AI Narration] Evaluating the Infinite
Sep 20, 2025
[Article] AI Tools for Existential Security
Sep 17, 2025
Is Gradual Disempowerment Inevitable? (with Raymond Douglas)
Sep 09, 2025
[Article] Intelsat as a Model for International AGI Governance
Sep 07, 2025
[Article] Will AI R&D Automation Cause a Software Intelligence Explosion?
Aug 31, 2025
Should AI Agents Obey Human Laws? (with Cullen O'Keefe)
Aug 28, 2025
[Article] AI-Enabled Coups: How a Small Group Could Use AI to Seize Power
Aug 26, 2025
[AI Narration] Could One Country Outgrow the Rest of the World After AGI?
Aug 20, 2025
How Can We Prevent AI-Enabled Coups? (with Tom Davidson)
Aug 17, 2025
Should We Aim for Flourishing Over Mere Survival? (with Will MacAskill)
Aug 04, 2025
[AI Narration] How quick and big would a software intelligence explosion be?
Aug 04, 2025
[AI Narration] Convergence and Compromise
Aug 03, 2025
[AI Narration] How to Make the Future Better
Aug 03, 2025
[AI Narration] Introducing Better Futures
Aug 03, 2025
[AI Narration] Persistent Path-Dependence
Aug 03, 2025
[AI Narration] No Easy Eutopia
Aug 03, 2025
[AI Narration] The Basic Case for Better Futures: SF Model Analysis
Aug 03, 2025
AI Rights for Human Safety (with Peter Salib and Simon Goldstein)
Jul 09, 2025
Inference Scaling, AI Agents, and Moratoria (with Toby Ord)
Jun 16, 2025
[AI Narration] The Industrial Explosion
May 21, 2025
AI Tools for Existential Security (with Lizka Vaintrob)
Apr 16, 2025
[AI Narration] Will Compute Bottlenecks Prevent a Software Intelligence Explosion?
Apr 04, 2025
[AI Narration] The AI Adoption Gap: Preparing the US Government for Advanced AI
Apr 02, 2025
Will AI R&D Automation Cause a Software Intelligence Explosion? (with Tom Davidson)
Mar 26, 2025
[AI Narration] Will the Need to Retrain AI Models from Scratch Block a Software Intelligence Explosion?
Mar 26, 2025
[AI Narration] How Can AI Labs Incorporate Risks From AI Accelerating AI Progress Into Their Responsible Scaling Policies?
Mar 24, 2025
Preparing for the Intelligence Explosion (with Will MacAskill)
Mar 18, 2025
[AI Narration] Once AI Research is Automated, Will AI Progress Accelerate?
Mar 17, 2025
[AI Narration] How Far Can AI Progress Before Hitting Effective Physical Limits?
Mar 17, 2025
[AI Narration] Three Types of Intelligence Explosion
Mar 17, 2025
[AI Narration] How Suddenly will AI Accelerate the Pace of AI progress?
Mar 17, 2025
Intelsat as a Model for International AGI Governance (with Rose Hadshar)
Mar 14, 2025
[AI Narration] Could Advanced AI Accelerate the Pace of AI Progress? Interviews with AI Researchers
Mar 01, 2025
What is ForeCast?
Feb 17, 2025
[AI Narration] Inference Scaling Reshapes AI Governance
Feb 13, 2025
[AI Narration] Inference Scaling & the Log-x Chart
Jan 21, 2025
[AI Narration] The Scaling Paradox
Jan 13, 2025
[AI Narration] Human Takeover Might be Worse than AI Takeover
Jan 11, 2025
[AI Narration] Should There Be Just One Western AGI Project?
Dec 03, 2024
[AI Narration] What’s Important in ‘AI for Epistemics’?
Aug 23, 2024
[AI Narration] On the Value of Advancing Progress
Jul 12, 2024
[AI Narration] Project Ideas: Governance During Explosive Technological Growth
Jan 03, 2024
[AI Narration] Project Ideas: Backup Plans & Cooperative AI
Jan 03, 2024
[AI Narration] Project Ideas: Sentience and Rights of Digital Minds
Jan 03, 2024
[AI Narration] Project ideas: Epistemics
Jan 03, 2024
[AI Narration] Project Ideas for Making Transformative AI Go Well, Other Than by Working on Alignment
Jan 02, 2024
[AI Narration] AGI and Lock-in
Oct 12, 2023