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Will MacAskill
Scottish moral philosopher, associate professor at Oxford and co-founder of the effective altruism movement, now senior research fellow at Forethought working on AGI preparedness.
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Jun 5, 2026
One: Will MacAskill on AI causing a “century in a decade” — and how we’re completely unprepared
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Rob WiblinHOST
Is there anything more to say about what is the challenge? And I guess, what is the urgent challenge that we face with space governance?
Will MacAskillGUEST
So that's a couple of starting intuition pumps for why this would become important.
Will MacAskillGUEST
One is just, okay, well, if the industrial base is growing a lot, well, we're going to need more resources.
Will MacAskillGUEST
And you've got enormous, in fact, a billion fold as many resources in space as there are on Earth.
Will MacAskillGUEST
And then a second is, once you've got AGI, it is much easier to do things in space, to have industry.
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Rob WiblinHOST
you want to make the case that sort of by default, assuming that we navigate through upcoming times, we don't go extinct, that in practice we're likely to do something that from an ethical or moral perspective is very mediocre, that only achieves quite a small fraction of the total value that in principle could be generated by the universe?