ForeCast

This is an AI narration of "Design Sketches: Angels-on-the-Shoulder" by Owen Cotton-Barratt, Lizka Vaintrob, Oly Sourbut, and Rose Hadshar. The article was first released on 29th January 2026. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research . Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

Rose Hadshar is a researcher at Forethought. She discusses: Why governments might pursue an international AGI government The chance that the first AGI developer becomes a de facto world government The "Intelsat model" – treating AGI as commercial infrastructure rather than a weapon or science project Membership and voting structures that might make a US-led coalition viable The "AGI convention" pr...

This is an AI narration of "The International AGI Project Series" by William MacAskill. The article was first released on 26th January 2026. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research . Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

This is an AI narration of "What an international project to develop AGI should look like" by William MacAskill. The article was first released on 26th January 2026. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research . Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

This is an AI narration of "International AI projects and differential AI development" by William MacAskill. The article was first released on 26th January 2026. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research . Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

This is an AI narration of "A global convention to govern the intelligence explosion" by William MacAskill. The article was first released on 26th January 2026. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research . Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

This is an AI narration of "An overview of some international organisations, with their voting structures" by Rose Hadshar. The article was first released on 26th January 2026. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research . Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

This is an AI narration of "The UN Charter: a case study in international governance" by Forethought Research. The article was first released on 26th January 2026. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research . Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

This is an AI narration of "AGI and World Government" by William MacAskill and Rose Hadshar. The article was first released on 26th January 2026. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research . Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

Tom Davidson and Will MacAskill are both researchers at Forethought. They discuss: What is the industrial explosion ? Why the case for recursive self-improvement is stronger for physical industry than for software How fast the physical economy could grow, the case for weekly doubling times, and limits from natural resources Why authoritarian regimes might have a structural advantage in the industr...

This is an AI narration of "Short Timelines Aren't Obviously Higher-Leverage" by William MacAskill and Mia Taylor. The article was first released on 22nd January 2026. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research . Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

This is an AI narration of "Beyond Existential Risk" by William MacAskill and Guive Assadi. The article was first released on 21st January 2026. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research . Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

This is an AI narration of "Is Flourishing Predetermined?" by Fin Moorhouse and Carlo Leonardo Attubato. The article was first released on 21st January 2026. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research . Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

This is an AI narration of "ML research directions for preventing catastrophic data poisoning" by Tom Davidson. The article was first released on 7th January 2026. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research . Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

This is an AI narration of "Viatopia" by William MacAskill. The article was first released on 7th January 2026. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research . Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

This is an AI narration of "Design Sketches: Collective Epistemics" by Owen Cotton-Barratt, Lizka Vaintrob, and Oly Sourbut. The article was first released on 25th December 2025. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research . Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

Lukas Finnveden is a Research Analyst at Redwood Research . We talk about making deals with early scheming AIs: paying them to cooperate rather than take over. You can read a full transcript here . To see all Forethought’s published research, visit forethought.org/research . To subscribe to our newsletter, visit forethought.org/subscribe .

This is an AI narration of "The first type of transformative AI?" by Owen Cotton-Barratt, Lizka Vaintrob, and Oly Sourbut. The article was first released on 18th December 2025. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research . Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

This is an AI narration of "Space Debris and Launch Denial" by Fin Moorhouse. The article was first released on 17th December 2025. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research . Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

Rose Hadshar (Forethought) and Nora Ammann (ARIA) talk about power concentration, checks and balances, coups, and post-AGI political economy. You can read a full transcript here . This is the audio version of a video podcast. Watch the video on YouTube: youtu.be/PB855Xpx1kk?si=v05LVM-2VQ3XiT7N Prompted in part by Rose's recent article for 80,000 Hours on ‘Extreme power concentration’ — 80000hours....

Joe Carlsmith is a writer, researcher, and philosopher. He works at Anthropic on the character/constitution/spec for Claude. Before that, he was a senior advisor at Open Philanthropy. You can read a full transcript here . To see all Forethought’s published research, visit forethought.org/research . To subscribe to our newsletter, visit forethought.org/subscribe .

This is a bonus episode to say that Forethought is hiring researchers. After an overview of the roles, we hear from Research Fellow Mia Taylor about working at Forethought. You can read a full transcript here . The application deadline has been extended to November 1st 2025. Apply here: forethought.org/careers/researcher Chapters (00:00:00) Forethought hiring overview and roles (00:03:21) Intervie...

This is a narration of ‘Introducing Better Futures ’ by William MacAskill; published 3rd August 2025. Narration by Perrin Walker ( @perrinjwalker ).

David Duvenaud is an associate professor at the University of Toronto. He recently organised the workshop on ‘Post-AGI Civilizational Equilibria’ , and he is a co-author of ‘Gradual Disempowerment’ . He recently finished an extended sabbatical on the Alignment Science team at Anthropic. You can read a full transcript here . To see all Forethought’s published research, visit forethought.org/researc...

This is an AI narration of "Evaluating the Infinite" by Toby Ord. The article was first released on 21st September 2025. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research . Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.