{"slug": "ai-2040-plan-a-thread", "title": "AI 2040: Plan A [thread]", "summary": "The team behind AI 2027 released a new scenario called AI 2040: Plan A, offering a positive vision for navigating the creation of super-intelligence. The named authors include Thomas Larsen, Romeo Dean, Brendan Halstead, Eli Lifland, Ryan Greenblatt, and Daniel Kokotajlo.", "body_md": "*AI 2040: Plan A** *is the new scenario from the team behind AI 2027 [1]. Instead of a straightforward prediction of the future, it provides a best guess positive vision for how humanity should navigate the creation of super-intelligence.\n\nI've only read a bit of it, so I'm not sharing any takes yet. I'm posting this so that there is a place on the EA Forum to discuss the essay/micro-site/project as we read it.\n\nSpecifically, the named authors are: Thomas Larsen, Romeo Dean, Brendan Halstead, Eli Lifland, Ryan Greenblatt, Daniel Kokotajlo", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-2040-plan-a-thread", "canonical_source": "https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/m9pkasF9LAqzsQboA/ai-2040-plan-a-thread", "published_at": "2026-07-10 09:07:14+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-10 09:15:07.241114+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-safety", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Thomas Larsen", "Romeo Dean", "Brendan Halstead", "Eli Lifland", "Ryan Greenblatt", "Daniel Kokotajlo"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-2040-plan-a-thread", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-2040-plan-a-thread.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-2040-plan-a-thread.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-2040-plan-a-thread.jsonld"}}