Archive - Benjamin Todd

AI is the most rapidly adopted technology in history

7 charts about AI deployment

Jul 11 •

June 2025

How not to lose your job to AI

The skills AI will make more valuable (and how to learn them)

Jun 24 •

April 2025

Should you quit your job – and work on risks from AI?

In five years, we could have AI systems capable of accelerating science and automating skilled jobs.

Apr 29 •

Shortening AGI timelines: a review of expert forecasts

As a non-expert, it would be great if there were experts who could tell us when we should expect artificial general intelligence (AGI) to arrive.

Apr 9 •

The case for AGI by 2030

In recent months, the CEOs of leading AI companies have grown increasingly confident about rapid progress:

Apr 6 •

March 2025

How to make AGI go well: a summary

I’m writing a new guide to careers to help AGI go well. Here's a summary of the key messages as they stand.

Mar 22 •

The most important graph in AI right now: time horizon

To understand how close we are to transformative AI, here’s the metric I find most interesting right now: how long are the tasks AI can do?

Mar 20 •

February 2025

Teaching AI to reason: this year's most important story

Most people think of AI as a pattern-matching chatbot – good at writing emails, terrible at real thinking.

Feb 12 •

Gary Marcus says AI can't do things it can already do

The problem of criticising AI using outdated models

Feb 8 •

January 2025

How quickly could robots scale up?

Some notes on robot economics.

Jan 12 •

December 2024

How can an ordinary person prepare for AGI?

What if artificial general intelligence (AGI) arrives in just a couple of years, triggering an explosion in science and technology that transforms life…

Dec 22, 2024 •

It looks like there are some good funding opportunities in AI safety right now

The AI safety community has grown rapidly since the ChatGPT wake-up call, but available funding doesn’t seem to have kept pace.

Dec 21, 2024 •

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