They Wrote the Good Ending for AI. We Still Lose Control.

The people drinking champagne at this rooftop party are counting down to midnight, but it's not New Year's Eve.

It's late October twenty forty, and they are counting down to the date that forecasters predicted the machines are finally smart enough and in control enough to take over the world.

Some people spend the night praying, some sit at a screen waiting for the news to be official, and some throw a party.

Last year, AI researchers wrote AI twenty twenty-seven, a scenario where it all goes wrong and everybody dies.

But this one, AI twenty forty, is the sequel, and this time they sat down and they tried to write the version where everything goes right.

This party is what they came back with.

But if nobody's screaming and nobody's dying, why is everybody watching the clock? AI twenty forty was published this month.

The man behind it used to work at OpenAI, and he forfeited two million dollars for the right to tell us everything.

This new scenario has eighty-eight percent unemployment in it, a medium income of thirteen million dollars, self-destruct switches wired into data centers on two continents, and machines that don't want things that we do, but they're running the world anyway.

They looked at all the data, and then they wrote what you are about to watch, and the reason they wrote it is because it is the scenario that the most powerful AI companies in the world are least likely to fight.

This is the good ending.

The people drinking champagne at this rooftop party are counting down to midnight, but it's not New Year's Eve.

It's late October twenty forty, and they are counting down to the date that forecasters predicted the machines are finally smart enough and in control enough to take over the world.

Some people spend the night praying, some sit at a screen waiting for the news to be official, and some throw a party.

Last year, AI researchers wrote AI twenty twenty-seven, a scenario where it all goes wrong and everybody dies.

But this one, AI twenty forty, is the sequel, and this time they sat down and they tried to write the version where everything goes right.

This party is what they came back with.

But if nobody's screaming and nobody's dying, why is everybody watching the clock? AI twenty forty was published this month.

The man behind it used to work at OpenAI, and he forfeited two million dollars for the right to tell us everything.

This new scenario has eighty-eight percent unemployment in it, a medium income of thirteen million dollars, self-destruct switches wired into data centers on two continents, and machines that don't want things that we do, but they're running the world anyway.

They looked at all the data, and then they wrote what you are about to watch, and the reason they wrote it is because it is the scenario that the most powerful AI companies in the world are least likely to fight.

This is the good ending.