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The Most Important Century

Holden Karnofsky

A careful argument for why AI timelines should reshape priorities even under uncertainty.

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Target date

2100

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Blended score

TBD

Capability score

TBD

Deployment score

TBD

The blended score is our overall estimate for the full prediction. The capability score asks, 'Could the technology exist by then?' The deployment score asks, 'Will it be widely used and visible in the real world by then?' For this prediction, the technology may arrive before the world is ready to deploy it safely or broadly.

Overview

What this source is arguing

Karnofsky argues that the long-run stakes and plausible timing of transformative AI make this century unusually consequential.

The big prediction

The core claim to test

This century could plausibly be the most important in history because of transformative AI.

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