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Good quality. Reputable source with community review or editorial standards, but less rigorous than peer-reviewed venues.

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AI Impacts is a key empirical research hub for AI safety; its expert surveys and wiki pages are frequently cited in discussions about AI timelines, risk probability, and strategic forecasting within the broader AI safety community.

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Summary

AI Impacts is a research organization that investigates empirical questions relevant to AI forecasting and safety, including AI timelines, discontinuous progress risks, and existential risk arguments. It maintains a wiki and blog featuring expert surveys, historical analyses, and structured arguments about transformative AI development. Notable outputs include periodic expert surveys on AI progress timelines.

Key Points

  • Hosts the 2023 Expert Survey on Progress in AI, a large-scale survey of 2778 ML researchers on timelines and risk
  • Maintains a wiki covering AI existential risk arguments, timeline predictions, and responses to AI development
  • Analyzes likelihood of discontinuous progress around AGI development using historical technology analogies
  • Investigates whether transformative AI technologies are inevitable, including cases of incentivized technologies not pursued
  • Affiliated with FLI, MIRI, and FHI, representing a core node in the AI safety research ecosystem

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## [Wiki](https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/)

[![](https://aiimpacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/AII-wiki-logo-v3.png)](https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/)

The wiki replaces old AI Impacts pages. Old pages are still up, but for up to date content see [**wiki**](https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/doku.php?id=start) versions.

## Featured wiki pages

[![](https://aiimpacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/ce8dfb8d-83ec-453b-8dd2-3609565338b7_2544x1274-e1704396504798-1024x402.webp)](https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/ai_timelines/predictions_of_human-level_ai_timelines/ai_timeline_surveys/2023_expert_survey_on_progress_in_ai) 2023 Expert Survey on Progress in AI[![](https://aiimpacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/dimitry-anikin-emM2IOQctzc-unsplash-1024x683.jpg)](https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/doku.php?id=featured_articles:fiction_relevant_to_ai_futurism) Fiction relevant to AI futurism[![](https://aiimpacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/andreas-brunn-Cw3To2Te3Xk-unsplash-1-1011x1024.jpg)](https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/doku.php?id=arguments_for_ai_risk:is_ai_an_existential_threat_to_humanity:start) Is AI an existential risk to humanity?[![](https://aiimpacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/bright-celebration-colors-634697-1-1024x683.jpg)](https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/doku.php?id=featured_articles:likelihood_of_discontinuous_progress_around_the_development_of_agi) Likelihood of discontinuous progress around the development of AGI[![](https://aiimpacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/frederic-paulussen-LWnD8U2OReU-unsplash-1024x678.jpg)](https://wiki.aiimpacts.org/doku.php?id=responses_to_ai:technological_inevitability:incentivized_technologies_not_pursued:start) Incentivized technologies not pursued

## [Blog](https://blog.aiimpacts.org/)

[![](https://aiimpacts.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Image-square-1.jpg)](https://blog.aiimpacts.org/p/2023-ai-survey-of-2778-six-things)

- [FAQ: Expert Survey on Progress in AI methodology](https://blog.aiimpacts.org/p/faq-expert-survey-on-progress-in)
2025-10-31by Katja Grace
Context

- [Reanalyzing the 2023 Expert Survey on Progress in AI](https://blog.aiimpacts.org/p/reanalyzing-the-2023-expert-survey)
2024-12-15by Ben Weinstein-Raun
With new charts, and a newly open-source codebase

- [Winners of the Essay competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy](https://blog.aiimpacts.org/p/winners-of-the-essay-competition)
2024-10-28by Owen Cotton-Barratt
We’re delighted to announce the winners of the Essay competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy.


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