Lawfare Daily: Daniel Kokotajlo and Eli Lifland on Their AI 2027 Report

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Daniel Kokotajlo, former OpenAI researcher and Executive Director of the AI Futures Project, and Eli Lifland, a researcher with the AI Futures Project, join Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at Texas Law and Contributing Editor at _Lawfare_, to discuss what AI may look like in 2027. The trio explore a [report](https://ai-2027.com/) co-authored by Daniel that dives into the hypothetical evolution of AI over the coming years. This novel report has already elicited a lot of attention with some reviewers celebrating its creativity and others questioning its methodology. Daniel and Eli tackle that feedback and help explain the report’s startling conclusion—that superhuman AI will develop within the next decade.

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**Transcript**

**_\[Intro\]_**

**Eli Lifland:** What we hypothesize is that if you have this super, what we call a superhuman coder—which is like a, you know, an AI system that is as good at the, as the best human coder, except much faster and cheaper as well—that this would kind of like in various ways, improve the research productivity by a significant amount.

**Kevin Frazier:** It is the _Lawfare_ _Podcast_. I'm _Kevin Frazier_, the AI Innovation and Law Fellow at Texas Law and a contributing editor at _Lawfare_, joined by Daniel Kokotajlo, former OpenAI researcher and executive director of the AI Futures Project

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