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ForeCast is a podcast from Forethought, where we hear from the authors about new research.
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Phil Trammell is an economics postdoc at Stanford University's Digital Economy Lab, working on questions related to economic growth and AI. He discusses:
Why Piketty's thesis about runaway inequality was likely wrong about the past but right about the future
How full automation turns capital and labour into gross substitutes
Why catch-up growth between rich and poor countries could end
How the privatisation of returns is already concentrating wealth
Why family dynasties and inheritance become far more important in a post-automation economy
Whether autocratic regimes can outgrow democracies after AGI
How to measure whether capital is becoming truly self-replicating — and what the data currently shows
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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.
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Sam Hammond is is Chief Economist at the Foundation for American Innovation. He discusses:
How collapsing transaction costs could push towards privatising the nation-state
The “distributed denial of service” problem for courts and regulators
Why perfect enforcement of existing laws would be effectively totalitarian
Estonia's government-as-API as a model for AI-era governance
Whether 20th-century social democracy was a technological aberration
Why post-AGI states might look more like Dubai than Denmark
Mormons, religion, and social scaffolding for a post-scarcity world
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This is an AI narration of "Design sketches for a more sensible world" by Owen Cotton-Barratt, Lizka Vaintrob, Oly Sourbut, and Rose Hadshar. The article was first released on 5th February 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 "Design Sketches: Angels-on-the-Shoulder" by Owen Cotton-Barratt, Lizka Vaintrob, Oly Sourbut, and Rose Hadshar. The article was first released on 29th January 2026.
You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research. Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.
Rose Hadshar is a researcher at Forethought. She discusses:
Why governments might pursue an international AGI government
The chance that the first AGI developer becomes a de facto world government
The "Intelsat model" – treating AGI as commercial infrastructure rather than a weapon or science project
Membership and voting structures that might make a US-led coalition viable
The "AGI convention" proposal
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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 "AGI and World Government" by William MacAskill and 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 "The International AGI Project Series" by William MacAskill. The article was first released on 26th January 2026.
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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.
This is an AI narration of "The UN Charter: a case study in international governance" by Forethought Research. 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.
Tom Davidson and Will MacAskill are both researchers at Forethought.
They discuss:
What is the industrial explosion?
Why the case for recursive self-improvement is stronger for physical industry than for software
How fast the physical economy could grow, the case for weekly doubling times, and limits from natural resources
Why authoritarian regimes might have a structural advantage in the industrial explosion
Could a leading country outgrow the entire world to achieve decisive dominance?
Why does the industrial explosion get ~1% of the attention of the intelligence explosion?
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This is an AI narration of "Short Timelines Aren't Obviously Higher-Leverage" by William MacAskill and Mia Taylor. The article was first released on 22nd 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 "Is Flourishing Predetermined?" by Fin Moorhouse and Carlo Leonardo Attubato. The article was first released on 21st 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 "Beyond Existential Risk" by William MacAskill and Guive Assadi. The article was first released on 21st 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 "ML research directions for preventing catastrophic data poisoning" by Tom Davidson. The article was first released on 7th 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 "Viatopia" by William MacAskill. The article was first released on 7th 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 "Design Sketches: Collective Epistemics" by Owen Cotton-Barratt, Lizka Vaintrob, and Oly Sourbut. The article was first released on 25th December 2025.
You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research. Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.
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