ForeCast

Phil Trammell, an economics postdoc at Stanford's Digital Economy Lab, explores how automation could turn capital into true substitutes for labor. He discusses why past dynamics may not predict the future, how catch-up growth might stall, rising importance of inheritance, and whether concentrated capital could reshape politics and global inequality.

This is an AI narration of "Moral public goods are a big deal for whether we get a good future" by Tom Davidson, William MacAskill, Mia Taylor. The article was first released on 23rd February 2026. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research. Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

Sam Hammond, Chief Economist at the Foundation for American Innovation, maps how AI could reshape state power and markets. He discusses collapsing transaction costs, privatization versus autocratic lock-in, courts swamped by AI-driven filings, Estonia-style government-as-API, and the rise of new AI-powered elites. Short, provocative takes on governance, regulation, and social scaffolding in a post-AGI world.

A tour of designs for using AI to strengthen collective reasoning and decision making. It highlights tools for shared trust like provenance tracing and community notes. Personalized decision aids such as aligned recommenders and reflection scaffolds get attention. The conversation explores strategic awareness, fast facilitation, automated negotiation, and privacy-preserving verification.

Listeners hear sketches of five AI tools aimed at improving decision quality, including recommenders that optimize for long-term endorsement. They explore personalized learning tutors that adapt to goals and habits. The show outlines deep briefing systems that model context and stakeholders. It also covers reflection scaffolding for Socratic coaching and always-on guardian angels that nudge away from risky choices.

Rose Hadshar, a researcher at Forethought specializing in AI governance and policy. She explores why governments might build international AGI projects and how private firms could be integrated. Rose evaluates models like an Intelsat-style commercial infrastructure, membership and voting designs, monopoly-on-frontier training, and the proposed AGI convention. Short debates probe verification, commitment, and benefit-sharing.

This is an AI narration of "A global convention to govern the intelligence explosion" by William MacAskill. The article was first released on 26th January 2026. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research. Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

This is an AI narration of "International AI projects and differential AI development" by William MacAskill. The article was first released on 26th January 2026. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research. Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

This is an AI narration of "An overview of some international organisations, with their voting structures" by Rose Hadshar. The article was first released on 26th January 2026. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research. Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

This is an AI narration of "What an international project to develop AGI should look like" by William MacAskill. The article was first released on 26th January 2026. You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research. Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.