Owen Cotton-Barratt is a research consultant working with the Future of Life Institute, and a co-author of several recent Forethought articles on AI tools for epistemics and coordination. Rose Hadshar is a researcher at Forethought. They discuss:
- Whether LLMs are now good enough to start building tools that meaningfully help people track what's true
- What AI-powered reliability tracking could look like
- How AI negotiation systems could work
- Structured transparency and automated arms inspection — verifying compliance without revealing confidential information
- Whether coordination tech is more likely to enable cooperation or collusion
- The vision of a "Sensible Revolution": moving from individual tools to background infrastructure that makes civilisation's decision-making less insane
- Why building the good versions of these tools early matters for path dependency
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