🧩 Philosophy 16h ago · Cleo Nardo

Three thoughts on civilisational handoff

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Three thoughts on civilisational handoff
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What happens when humans put AIs in charge of civilisationally important decisions? A frontier AI company might hand over internal decisions (R&D, safety, deployment) or external decisions (government relations, public relations, philanthropy), or both. We might also see handoff by a government, by a coalition of governments, or by humanity as a whole.[1]1. Handoff might decelerate things.People often imagine that things will go much faster after handoff. After all — why did we hand off to the A

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