Tom Davidson

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AI for decision advice

Tom Davidson17 Apr 2026 21:40 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

AI should be a good citizen, not just a good assistant

Tom Davidson and wdmacaskill

30 Mar 2026 14:32 UTC

37 points

16 comments9 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

AI character is a big deal

wdmacaskill and Tom Davidson

23 Mar 2026 16:36 UTC

34 points

33 comments12 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

Moral public goods are a big deal for whether we get a good future

Mia Taylor, Tom Davidson and wdmacaskill

24 Feb 2026 14:14 UTC

12 points

0 comments18 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

ML research directions for preventing catastrophic data poisoning

Tom Davidson7 Jan 2026 10:16 UTC

35 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

(newsletter.forethought.org)

Tom Davidson’s Shortform

Tom Davidson16 Oct 2025 18:11 UTC

6 points

18 comments1 min readLW link

Could one country outgrow the rest of the world?

Tom Davidson21 Aug 2025 15:32 UTC

45 points

23 comments17 min readLW link

(newsletter.forethought.org)

Thoughts on Gradual Disempowerment

Tom Davidson15 Aug 2025 11:56 UTC

63 points

32 comments19 min readLW link

How quick and big would a software intelligence explosion be?

Tom Davidson and tom_houlden

22 Jul 2025 12:58 UTC

42 points

28 comments34 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

The Industrial Explosion

rosehadshar and Tom Davidson

26 Jun 2025 14:41 UTC

131 points

70 comments15 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

AI-enabled coups: a small group could use AI to seize power

Tom Davidson, Lukas Finnveden and rosehadshar

16 Apr 2025 16:51 UTC

137 points

23 comments7 min readLW link

Will compute bottlenecks prevent a software intelligence explosion?

Tom Davidson4 Apr 2025 17:41 UTC

78 points

25 comments12 min readLW link

Will the Need to Retrain AI Models from Scratch Block a Software Intelligence Explosion?

Tom Davidson28 Mar 2025 14:12 UTC

19 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Will AI R&D Automation Cause a Software Intelligence Explosion?

Tom Davidson and Daniel_Eth

26 Mar 2025 18:12 UTC

19 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

Three Types of Intelligence Explosion

rosehadshar, Tom Davidson and wdmacaskill

17 Mar 2025 14:47 UTC

40 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

Forethought: a new AI macrostrategy group

Max Dalton, Tom Davidson, wdmacaskill and AmritSidhu-Brar

11 Mar 2025 15:39 UTC

32 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

Could Advanced AI Accelerate the Pace of AI Progress? Interviews with AI Researchers

jleibowich, Nikola Jurkovic and Tom Davidson

3 Mar 2025 19:05 UTC

41 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(papers.ssrn.com)

Human takeover might be worse than AI takeover

Tom Davidson10 Jan 2025 16:53 UTC

147 points

58 comments8 min readLW link

(forethoughtnewsletter.substack.com)

Should there be just one western AGI project?

rosehadshar and Tom Davidson

3 Dec 2024 10:11 UTC

78 points

75 comments15 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

Takeoff speeds presentation at Anthropic

Tom Davidson4 Jun 2024 22:46 UTC

93 points

0 comments25 min readLW link