Ajeya Cotra
AI forecasting researcher at METR; writes Planned Obsolescence.
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- Ajeya Cotra researches how fast AI may advance and what that means.
- She is on the technical staff of METR, a nonprofit that studies the most advanced AI agents.
- Earlier, as a senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy, she wrote Forecasting Transformative AI With Biological Anchors.
- Her newsletter Planned Obsolescence is about a future where AI does most intellectual, and eventually physical, work.
Key facts
- Current role
- Technical staff, METR1
- Open Philanthropy
- Senior research analyst (as of January 2021)2
- Known for
- Forecasting Transformative AI With Biological Anchors, a report she worked on at Open Philanthropy2
- Newsletter
- Planned Obsolescence: "Thinking ahead to a future where AI decides everything"3
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