Will McCaskill
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 26 May
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Futurist who discussed AI‑accelerated neurobacteria scenarios
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentBenjamin Todd"The Cognitive Revolution" · Your Biggest Lever: Designing your AI Career for Maximum Imp... · 1:32:32 · 26 May
…So I'm quite into the idea of what we should be shooting for is this idea from Will McCaskill, which he calls a viatopia, which is not specifying a particular end state, but it's trying to just get civilization.…
Rob Wiblin"The Cognitive Revolution" · It's Crunch Time: Ajeya Cotra on RSI & AI-Powered AI Safety ... · 1:05:52 · 11 Apr
…So I interviewed Will McCaskill and Tom Davidson from Forethought earlier in the year, and they have, the organization has a long list of what they call grand challenges, which they suspect all of them are probably amenable to this kind of AGI labor during crunch time.…
Rob Wiblin80,000 Hours Podcast · #235 – Ajeya Cotra on whether it’s crazy that every AI c... · 6:00 · 17 Feb
…Whereas I think that there's a pretty good chance that by 2050, the world will look as different from today as today does from the hunter-gatherer era.…
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