AI for Civilizational Sanity (with Rose Hadshar and Owen Cotton-Barratt)

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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