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This is the about page for AI Impacts, a well-known AI safety research organization; useful as an orientation to their mission and scope, but the substantive research content lives in their individual posts and surveys.
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AI Impacts is a research project founded by Katja Grace focused on synthesizing empirical evidence and organizing expert disagreements about long-term impacts of human-level AI. It targets researchers, philanthropists, and policymakers by addressing key questions around AI timelines, economic impacts, and the influence of current decisions on future outcomes. The project maintains continuously revised posts to reflect evolving evidence and outstanding disagreements.
Key Points
- •Aims to provide credible, clearly communicated analysis on AI development timelines and long-term societal impacts
- •Targets researchers, philanthropists, and policymakers whose work is shaped by expectations about advanced AI
- •Organizes and synthesizes empirical evidence on questions like AI goal-directedness, economic effects, and plausible AI paths
- •Content is structured as continuously revised posts that explicitly track disagreements and evidence updates
- •Founded and led by Katja Grace, with past contributors including Paul Christiano and Daniel Kokotajlo
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#### This project aims to improve our understanding of the likely impacts of human-level artificial intelligence.
The intended audience includes researchers doing work related to artificial intelligence, philanthropists involved in funding research related to artificial intelligence, and policy-makers whose decisions may be influenced by their expectations about artificial intelligence.
**The focus is particularly on the long-term impacts of sophisticated artificial intelligence.** Although human-level AI may be far in the future, there are a number of important questions which we can try to address today and may have implications for contemporary decisions. For example:
- What should we believe about timelines for AI development?
- How rapid is the development of AI likely to be near human-level? How much advance notice should we expect to have of disruptive change?
- What are the likely economic impacts of human-level AI?
- Which paths to AI should be considered plausible or likely?
- Will human-level AI tend to pursue particular goals, and if so what kinds of goals?
- Can we say anything meaningful about the impact of contemporary choices on long-term outcomes?
Today, public discussion on these issues appears to be highly fragmented and of limited credibility. More credible and clearly communicated views on these issues might help improve estimates of the social returns to AI investment, identify neglected research areas, improve policy, or productively channel public interest in AI.
#### The goal of the project is to clearly present and organize the considerations which inform contemporary views on these and related issues, to identify and explore disagreements, and to assemble whatever empirical evidence is relevant.
The project is provisionally organized as a collection of posts concerning particular issues or bodies of evidence, describing what is known and attempting to synthesize a reasonable view in light of available evidence. These posts are intended to be continuously revised in light of outstanding disagreements and to make explicit reference to those disagreements.
### **AI Impacts contributors**
#### Research
**Katja Grace**
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Katja co-founded AI Impacts, where she is the Lead Researcher. She started doing this because she wanted to know what would happen with AI, and thought other people might too. She continues because she thinks it’s one of the most important research projects at the moment. Her background is in philosophy, economics, and human ecology, with particular interests in anthropic reasoning, artificial intelligence risk, and game theory. She blogs at [world spirit sock puppet](https://worldspiritsockpuppet.com/).
#### Support
**Jimmy Rintjema**
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