[Linkpost] "AIFP: Looks Like the Intelligence Explosion Will Happen in 2027 After All" by Zach Stein-Perlman cover art

[Linkpost] "AIFP: Looks Like the Intelligence Explosion Will Happen in 2027 After All" by Zach Stein-Perlman

[Linkpost] "AIFP: Looks Like the Intelligence Explosion Will Happen in 2027 After All" by Zach Stein-Perlman

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Summary
 This is a link post. METR recently estimated that Anthropic is now making AI progress about twice as fast as its historical rate (they would not be surprised by anything from 1.3x to 3x), and guessed that “perhaps roughly equals 80%” of the current acceleration is due to AI. If they’re right, that implies an AI-driven acceleration that is 5 months ahead of the AI 2027 scenario.

This level of acceleration due to AI is very unexpected. Previously, Daniel, the most bullish of us, assigned a 50% chance of Superhuman AI Researcher (SAR) before 2029. SAR is roughly the point at which a company would rather fire all their human researchers and rely solely on automated AI researchers than have a team of the best human researchers in the world with no AIs.

Now, all of us forecast that Superhuman AI Researcher (SAR) will likely arrive at some point in 2027 (assuming no substantial deliberate slowdown). We also predict a 35-65% chance that Top-Expert-Dominating AI (TED-AI), AIs that can automate all white-collar work, will arrive before 2028. While there were many factors and sources of evidence that influenced us, the single biggest source was the METR report.

If SAR is [...]

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First published:
November 10th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/f9PajMLmBYzmWzyDv/aifp-looks-like-the-intelligence-explosion-will-happen-in

Linkpost URL:
https://blog.aifutures.org/p/q35-timelines-update-looks-like-the

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