The questions shaping AI’s future.
Arguments, proposals and disagreements, organized around the decisions at stake. Follow the sources and compare what people are proposing.
Should frontier AI development slow down? →
Proposals for independent evaluation, coordinated pacing and public oversight — and the arguments against them.
Should the most capable AI models be freely downloadable? →
Open access, independent scrutiny and competition — weighed against safeguards that cannot be enforced once model weights are released.
Who should decide whether a frontier model is safe enough to release? →
Developer accountability, independent evaluation and enforceable public authority — and who can stop a release when they disagree.
Should AI systems be trained to consider their own welfare? →
Precaution about possible moral status — weighed against concern that welfare-related training could encourage self-preservation and resistance to control.