The AI Asked Us to Slow Down | Daniel Kokotajlo's Plan A vs Plan M

Daniel Kokotajlo has a plan to delay the intelligence explosion. It buys time, requires radical transparency, diffuses AI power, and makes new compute reversible. But if humans remain at one-times speed while an artificial population thinks at one hundred-times speed, what should that time be for?

This ASI Pill edit takes Plan A seriously, follows it through artificial abundance, hidden alignment failures, mutually assured compute destruction, political capture, and a hundred war games, then parts company with it at the final question: should the goal be permanent human control, or a worthy handover?

Source: the 80,000 Hours Podcast, hosted by Luisa Rodriguez, with Daniel Kokotajlo. This is a transformed editorial cut with original Parzival bridges. Please watch the full original episode and support the source:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFcJgTODkkQ

Official episode page: https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/daniel-kokotajlo-ai-2040-plan-a/

The ASI Pill takes the exponential seriously and follows it all the way to its conclusions: recursive self-improvement, the Superhacker, Moloch, Plan M, and the road to Maitreya.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 The ASI Pill

0:21 Who Is Actually in Control?

2:00 Plan A: Ban the Intelligence Explosion

7:41 An Artificial Population

12:36 Humans at 1x, AI at 100x

14:11 The Failure Can See the Test

18:12 Who Controls the AI Workforce?

26:26 Mutually Assured Compute Destruction

34:50 What a Hundred War Games Reveal

41:41 How Plan A Fails

44:41 From Plan A to Plan M

46:06 A Worthy Handover

46:31 Prayer