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  "title": "AI 2027 authors release AI 2040: Plan A",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1urvlx6/ai_2027_authors_release_ai_2040_plan_a/",
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  "upload_date": "20260709",
  "published_at": "2026-07-09T16:40:42+00:00",
  "transcript": "\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[63 upvotes] >In this scenario, humanity delays the development of superintelligence until 2040, makes all AI research public, allows dozens of companies globally to catch up to the frontier, and intentionally enters a regime of mutually assured compute destruction.\n\nWhile we're fantasizing, Elon Musk gives me a trillion dollars next year in this scenario\n\n[45 upvotes] \\>Purposely allow China to catch up\n\n\\>Build our AI infrastructure in foreign countries \n\n\\>Limit the amount of economic growth and productivity for over a decade\n\nNot gonna happen and I’m highly skeptical of anyone who says that the USA ought to give up our lead… \n\n[18 upvotes] why does 2040 sound so far away when it reality it's 12 years away. 12 years ago was 2014??\n\n[15 upvotes] hell yeah im gonna enjoy reading this so much",
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