Forethought
Forethought: Automating AI Alignment Work Splits Into Three Distinct Types
Owen Cotton-Barratt of Forethought argues that efforts to automate AI alignment should be split into three categories: empirical research, conceptual research and direct…
Forethought: A First Mover Could Make Rivals' Space Entry Costlier, Maybe Block It
A new Forethought research piece asks whether a first mover in space could cement its lead by denying rivals access, either by capturing scarce assets or by destroying…
Think Tank Argues the US Can Afford to Pace Frontier AI Development
The US can probably afford to deliberately slow frontier AI research, argues Avi Parrack in a Forethought analysis published on 29 October 2026. He says the country's…
Forethought paper maps hard cases for how powerful AI should behave
A new Forethought paper by Tom Davidson lays out a series of hard cases in which the things we want from powerful AI conflict with one another, from obeying orders to…