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Good quality. Reputable source with community review or editorial standards, but less rigorous than peer-reviewed venues.

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AI Impacts is a key empirical research hub for AI safety; its expert surveys and wiki pages are frequently cited in discussions about AI timelines, risk probability, and strategic forecasting within the broader AI safety community.

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Summary

AI Impacts is a research organization that investigates empirical questions relevant to AI forecasting and safety, including AI timelines, discontinuous progress risks, and existential risk arguments. It maintains a wiki and blog featuring expert surveys, historical analyses, and structured arguments about transformative AI development. Notable outputs include periodic expert surveys on AI progress timelines.

Key Points

  • Hosts the 2023 Expert Survey on Progress in AI, a large-scale survey of 2778 ML researchers on timelines and risk
  • Maintains a wiki covering AI existential risk arguments, timeline predictions, and responses to AI development
  • Analyzes likelihood of discontinuous progress around AGI development using historical technology analogies
  • Investigates whether transformative AI technologies are inevitable, including cases of incentivized technologies not pursued
  • Affiliated with FLI, MIRI, and FHI, representing a core node in the AI safety research ecosystem

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 The wiki replaces old AI Impacts pages. Old pages are still up, but for up to date content see wiki versions.

 
 Featured wiki pages

 
 
 2023 Expert Survey on Progress in AI 

 Fiction relevant to AI futurism 

 Is AI an existential risk to humanity? 

 Likelihood of discontinuous progress around the development of AGI 

 Incentivized technologies not pursued 
 
 
 
 
 Blog 

 
 
 FAQ: Expert Survey on Progress in AI methodology 2025-10-31 by Katja Grace Context 
 Reanalyzing the 2023 Expert Survey on Progress in AI 2024-12-15 by Ben Weinstein-Raun With new charts, and a newly open-source codebase 
 Winners of the Essay competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy 2024-10-28 by Owen Cotton-Barratt We’re delighted to announce the winners of the Essay competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy. 
 
 
 
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