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Forget Ghost Stories: AI Researchers Wrote This Halloween's Scariest Scenario - And a Hopeful One Too
AI 2027 is a detailed scenario written in April 2025 by AI researchers, including a former OpenAI employee, imagining how the next few years of artificial intelligence could unfold - and parts of it are already checkable against reality. We give you the shape of it, why its own authors call it a forecast and not a prophecy, and what their more hopeful follow-up, AI 2040's "Plan A," proposes instead - plus links to read both scenarios in full.
DuncanOctober 31, 2026