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The authors hope that offering one viable plan advances discussion beyond abstract arguments that are weakly grounded in reality.
Thomas Larsen · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sep 2026
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“be like the you know positive vision story and it was again sort of in the spirit of I think a war game trying to illustrate you know sort of one possible concrete future path and then of course things aren't going to actually go exactly like that but having like one viable plan that makes any sense at all uh is like you know we hope sort of a positive step forward relative to sort of the previous state of just like abstract arguments in the void that are sort of not that tethered to reality”8:44Report a misattribution
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