Daniel Kokotajlo has a plan to delay the intelligence explosion. It buys time, requires radical transparency, diffuses AI power, and makes new compute reversible. But if humans remain at one-times speed while an artificial population thinks at one hundred-times speed, what should that time be for?
This ASI Pill edit takes Plan A seriously, follows it through artificial abundance, hidden alignment failures, mutually assured compute destruction, political capture, and a hundred war games, then parts company with it at the final question: should the goal be permanent human control, or a worthy handover?
Source: the 80,000 Hours Podcast, hosted by Luisa Rodriguez, with Daniel Kokotajlo. This is a transformed editorial cut with original Parzival bridges. Please watch the full original episode and support the source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFcJgTODkkQ
Official episode page: https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/daniel-kokotajlo-ai-2040-plan-a/
The ASI Pill takes the exponential seriously and follows it all the way to its conclusions: recursive self-improvement, the Superhacker, Moloch, Plan M, and the road to Maitreya.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 The ASI Pill
0:21 Who Is Actually in Control?
2:00 Plan A: Ban the Intelligence Explosion
7:41 An Artificial Population
12:36 Humans at 1x, AI at 100x
14:11 The Failure Can See the Test
18:12 Who Controls the AI Workforce?
26:26 Mutually Assured Compute Destruction
34:50 What a Hundred War Games Reveal
41:41 How Plan A Fails
44:41 From Plan A to Plan M
46:06 A Worthy Handover
46:31 Prayer
