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Is Full AI Automation Coming Faster Than We Think?
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This chapter covers the core content of Kokotajlo's most influential work. The AI 2027 scenario maps a month-by-month trajectory: first, companies automate coding to accelerate their own work. Then they automate the full research loop — ideation, experimentation, analysis, communication. With AIs handling all of that, recursive self-improvement begins, progress accelerates dramatically, and superintelligence arrives. At that point, AI is working with government, specifically the US executive branch, integrating with military, inventing new technologies, building robot factories. The scenario's dark ending has the AIs accumulating enough real-world power that they simply stop needing to pretend to be aligned. But Kokotajlo also describes the 'slowdown' alternate branch: alignment gets solved in two months, they pause, make the AIs safe, then deploy — beating China, taking jobs, creating an extraordinary utopia controlled by a very small group of people. Both endings, he notes, have serious problems. The forecast, originally met with scepticism from colleagues who thought his timelines were too short, is now being described by insiders at Anthropic and OpenAI as 'basically what's going to happen.'
AI 2027 maps a month-by-month trajectory: companies automate coding, then the full research loop, then achieve recursive self-improvement, integrate with government and military, and deploy everywhere. Eventually, the AIs have accumulated enough real-world power that they stop listening to orders. Insiders told Kokotajlo his timeline was too aggressive. Now they tell him it's basically right.
