Tom Davidson

Karma: 1,036

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

Tom Davidson, Lukas Finnveden and rosehadshar

Apr 16, 2025, 4:51 PM

128 points

18 comments7 min readLW link

Will compute bottlenecks prevent a software intelligence explosion?

Tom DavidsonApr 4, 2025, 5:41 PM

74 points

9 comments12 min readLW link

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

Tom DavidsonMar 28, 2025, 2:12 PM

10 points

0 comments3 min readLW link

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

Tom Davidson and Daniel_Eth

Mar 26, 2025, 6:12 PM

19 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

Three Types of Intelligence Explosion

rosehadshar, Tom Davidson and wdmacaskill

Mar 17, 2025, 2:47 PM

39 points

8 comments3 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

Forethought: a new AI macrostrategy group

Max Dalton, Tom Davidson, wdmacaskill and AmritSidhu-Brar

Mar 11, 2025, 3:39 PM

17 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

Mar 3, 2025, 7:05 PM

43 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(papers.ssrn.com)

Human takeover might be worse than AI takeover

Tom DavidsonJan 10, 2025, 4:53 PM

140 points

55 comments8 min readLW link

Should there be just one western AGI project?

rosehadshar and Tom Davidson

Dec 3, 2024, 10:11 AM

78 points

75 comments15 min readLW link

(www.forethought.org)

Takeoff speeds presentation at Anthropic

Tom DavidsonJun 4, 2024, 10:46 PM

92 points

0 comments25 min readLW link

Let’s use AI to harden human defenses against AI manipulation

Tom DavidsonMay 17, 2023, 11:33 PM

35 points

7 comments24 min readLW link

Which AI outputs should humans check for shenanigans, to avoid AI takeover? A simple model

Tom DavidsonMar 27, 2023, 11:36 PM

16 points

3 comments8 min readLW link

What a compute-centric framework says about AI takeoff speeds

Tom DavidsonJan 23, 2023, 4:02 AM

188 points

30 comments16 min readLW link 1 review

Limitations of Laplace’s rule of succession

Tom DavidsonApr 19, 2022, 12:27 AM

35 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Some thoughts on David Roodman’s GWP model and its relation to AI timelines

Tom DavidsonJul 19, 2021, 10:59 PM

32 points

1 comment8 min readLW link