AI Futures Project
AI Futures Project is a nonprofit AI forecasting research organization founded in October 2024 in Berkeley, California, by former OpenAI governance researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, with Eli Lifland, Thomas Larsen and Romeo Dean on the core team.
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AI Futures Project is a nonprofit AI forecasting research organization founded in October 2024 in Berkeley, California, by former OpenAI governance researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, with Eli Lifland, Thomas Larsen and Romeo Dean on the core team. It uses scenario writing, quantitative modeling and tabletop exercises to study AI capability trajectories and governance responses; its work includes AI 2027, the AI Futures Model and AI 2040: Plan A.
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