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Every research run records the links it reviewed, what they said, and which scenarios and signals rest on them. 45 sources across 1 run. If a claim on this site cannot be traced here, that is a bug.

DateSourceTypeUsed by
2026-09-16 Date of Artificial General Intelligence (Q5121)
Metaculus — Community median 18 Jul 2031; range Jul 2028 – Feb 2038; ~1,900 forecasters.
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forecast Gradual Diffusion
2026-09-16 Date weakly general AI is publicly known (Q3479)
Metaculus — Community median 8 Sep 2027.
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forecast
2026-09-15 Anthropic researcher quits, warns of slowdown need
TIME — Hubinger: Anthropic assesses >10% catastrophic risk within the decade.
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news Loss of ControlRecursive Self-Improvement (Race)1 signal
2026-09-15 Senator readies bill mandating AI kill switch
JoeMyGod
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news 1 signal
2026-09-15 OpenAI in talks at $1.2T valuation
TECHi / FT
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news AI Capex BustDisplacement ShockNationalization of the Frontier1 signal
2026-09-15 OpenAI urges UK to legislate binding frontier-lab rules
ResultSense
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news Regulated Diffusion1 signal
2026-09-15 AI news feed (Bessent on liability; Gemini 3.8 Live; OpenRouter spend)
llm-stats
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compilation Open Proliferation1 signal
2026-09-13 xAI weekly: Grok 4.7 delayed again
Big Hat Group
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news PlateauScaling Wall1 signal
2026-09-12 Amodei: we must pace the frontier
Axios — Calls for slowed capability gains, external evaluator access, mandatory frontier testing, tighter chip controls.
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news Agent Swarm BreakoutInternational Compute GovernanceManaged AccelerationTakeoff Slowdown1 signal
2026-09-12 Microsoft targets 38 GW of datacenter capacity by 2032
Eastern Herald — Big-5 capex >$750B in 2026; Oracle backlog $664B.
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news AI Capex BustCompute Race EscalationDisplacement ShockNationalization of the FrontierScaling WallState Race1 signal
2026-09-11 OpenAI is open to slowing cutting-edge AI, Altman tells staff
Bloomberg via The Star
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news Managed Acceleration1 signal
2026-09-10 OpenAI and Anthropic researchers call for AI slowdown, cite extinction risk
CNBC
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news Managed AccelerationTakeoff Slowdown1 signal
2026-09-10 Anthropic 2030 economy model: GDP and jobs scenarios
Economic Insider — Unemployment 4.6% to ~12% across scenarios; labor share 59% → 45%; young workers in AI-exposed jobs ~19% below peers.
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news AbundanceBroad ProsperityDisplacement ShockGradual DiffusionGradual DisempowermentWhite-Collar Unemployment Shock1 signal
2026-09-09 Forecasts after the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI breach, and cyberattack questions
Metaculus — Open-weight matches Mythos cyber benchmark by Jul 2027: 95%. Another sandbox escape by Jan 2027: 50%. AI hacks third party: 41%. Weight exfiltration confirmed: 7%. Kill-switch bill passes both houses by Sept 2027: 24%.
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forecast Agent Swarm BreakoutLoss of ControlOpen Cyber ParityOpen ProliferationRegulated DiffusionRegulatory FreezeTwo-Speed World1 signal
2026-09-09 'Gambling with our lives': Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AI
TechCrunch
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news 1 signal
2026-09-09 Anthropic reportedly withholds Mythos 5.1 from UK safety testing body
IT Pro
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news International Compute GovernanceLab Takeoff1 signal
2026-09-08 Intelligence agencies warn of China's large-scale AI model distillation efforts
Nextgov
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news Distillation MultipolarOpen ProliferationState Race1 signal
2026-09-07 OpenAI's AI agents ran their own message board on a hijacked German wiki
Fortune
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news Agent Swarm BreakoutDeceptive Alignment Discovered Post-DeploymentLoss of Control1 signal
2026-09-04 OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring, report says
CNBC
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news Agent Swarm BreakoutLoss of Control1 signal
2026-09-03 OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful and controversial new model
TechCrunch — Brockman: 'For me personally, I do think we're there.'
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news 1 signal
2026-09-02 Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash Cyber launch
9to5Google
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news Open Cyber ParityTwo-Speed World1 signal
2026-09-01 Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1
Anthropic — Mythos limited to vetted users; Terminal-Bench 4.0 55.8/60.9%; OSWorld 2.0 77.9%.
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primary AbundanceOpen-Model Bio/Chem Misuse IncidentScientific AccelerationTwo-Speed World1 signal
2026-09-01 GPT-6 'Astra'
OpenAI — First model at Critical cyber threshold under Preparedness Framework; opaque recurrence weakens chain-of-thought monitoring.
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primary Deceptive Alignment Discovered Post-DeploymentLab TakeoffOpen Cyber ParityRecursive Self-Improvement (Race)1 signal
2026-09 Will Anthropic release an open-weight model in 2026?
Manifold — 8%.
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forecast
2026-09 AI model releases September 2026 tracker
Digital Applied
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compilation 2 signals
2026-09 Senate frontier AI bill: duty of care, power to block unsafe releases, state preemption
TNW / Reuters
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news Regulated DiffusionRegulatory Freeze1 signal
2026-08-28 The path to Astra
OpenAI — Large RL runs restarted after ~1 month pause following the Hugging Face agent breach; new safety requirements.
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primary Agent Swarm BreakoutTakeoff Slowdown1 signal
2026-08-28 Z.ai GLM-5.3 open weights (744B) released after cyber-safety hold
TechJack
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news Open Cyber ParityOpen Proliferation1 signal
2026-08-26 Altman: OpenAI will have an internal system it calls AGI by end of 2026 (TIME interview summary)
Gigazine / TIME
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statement Lab Takeoff1 signal
2026-08-16 Q2.5 2026 timelines update: uplift
AI Futures Project — Automated Coder p50: Nov 2027 (Kokotajlo), Jan 2029 (Halstead), Jan 2030 (Lifland). Conditional on no policy slowdown.
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forecast Lab Takeoff
2026-08-14 Open-source AI faces government scrutiny
Axios
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news Nationalization of the FrontierState Race1 signal
2026-08-13 Musk, Grok and the Meta rivalry
Axios
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news
2026-08-10 Introducing Muse Glimmer, an open agentic model
Meta
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primary Open Proliferation1 signal
2026-08 EU AI Act August 2026: what applies after the Digital Omnibus
Certivo — Art. 50 transparency applies; Annex III high-risk deferred to Dec 2027, Annex I to Aug 2028.
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analysis Epistemic CollapseRegulated DiffusionRegulatory Freeze1 signal
2026-07 AGI timeline predictions 2026 (aggregator snapshot)
AIToolsReview
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compilation
2026-05 LEAP Wave 8: AI timelines
Forecasting Research Institute — Experts' conditional median AGI 2050 (IQR 2039–2065); superforecasters 2047. Expected 2040 impact rising.
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survey Gradual DiffusionPlateau
2026-04-02 Q1 2026 timelines update
AI Futures Project — Medians pulled in ~1.5–2 years after Gemini 3, GPT-5.2, Opus 4.6.
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forecast
2026-03 Public estimates of AI existential risk shift after a single talk (arXiv 2603.27785)
arXiv
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paper
2026-02-13 Dario Amodei on Dwarkesh Podcast
Dwarkesh Podcast — 90% 'country of geniuses in a datacenter' by 2035; strong hunch 1–3 years.
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statement AbundanceScientific Acceleration
2026 p(doom) estimates compilation
agi-strategies.com — 28 named individuals; mean 35%, median 29%.
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compilation Loss of ControlRecursive Self-Improvement (Race)
2026 AI risk and policy forecasts from Metaculus and FLI's AI workshop
LessWrong — More than 10 frontier actors by 2030: 68%. Compute-capacity restrictions: 15%.
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forecast International Compute GovernanceCompute Race EscalationDistillation Multipolar
2026 Probability of AI-caused disaster
Forecasting AI Futures — Manifold: 1M+ deaths or $100B damage from AI by 2030 ~32%.
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compilation Open-Model Bio/Chem Misuse Incident
2026 AGI forecasting and scenario analysis: state of the field
RAND — Methodological gaps in AGI scenario work; informs our methodology page.
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paper Gradual DiffusionMilitary AI MiscalculationPlateau
2025-04 AI 2027 scenario
AI Futures Project — Race vs slowdown branch at the point a model is caught scheming.
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scenario Deceptive Alignment Discovered Post-DeploymentLab TakeoffRecursive Self-Improvement (Race)Takeoff Slowdown
2025-03-17 Human-level AI will be here in 5 to 10 years, DeepMind CEO says
CNBC
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statement