AI Futures Model: Timelines & Takeoff

MATS Fellow:

Brendan Halstead, Alex Kastner

Authors:

Eli Lifland, Brendan Halstead, Alex Kastner, Daniel Kokotajlo

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Abstract:

This website presents the AI Futures Model (Dec 2025 version), following up on the timelines and takeoff models we published alongside AI 2027. Predicting superhuman AI capabilities inherently requires much intuition and guesswork, but we've nonetheless found quantitative modeling to be useful.

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