9 September 2026
8 new episodes (7.8 hours listening) published by the 50 podcasts on the list. 1 highlight clip below (4 mins total).
AI 9 September 2026 · 1 clip
Machine Learning Street Talk
Daniel Kokotajlo and Thomas Larsen, AI Futures Project.
Kokotajlo runs the AI Futures Project and co-authored both AI 2027 and AI 2040: Plan A. He previously worked at OpenAI on evaluations, forecasting and governance memos, and left to speak more freely about what people inside the industry can see. Larsen was lead author on Plan A and a co-author on AI 2027. The team says it has run around 100 war games, about 10 of them on Plan A itself, and scores its own published predictions against reality at roughly 75% of scenario speed.
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The AI Futures Project puts the current economy's doubling time at roughly 20 years, and argues a machine-run version could double annually or faster whether or not humans still have wages to spend.
Villages founding more villages gave way to trucks, factories and mines that build more trucks, factories and mines, and the AIs inside the newer loop also improve the technology it runs on, which is how they get to every six months and then every three. Pressed on demand collapsing, they answer that one large AI company and a few mining partners can compound in the desert whatever happens to household balance sheets.