The article examines whether increasing automation of AI research and development could trigger an intelligence explosion, compressing years of progress into months. It reviews preliminary evidence suggesting such acceleration is possible, discusses potential benefits and extreme risks—including loss of control over superhuman AI and erosion of checks on power—and calls for urgent policy action. The authors argue that, despite uncertainties, the high stakes demand serious attention and proactive measures.
arXiv:2608. 05173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As AI capabilities advance, AI systems will pose greater risks to national security and potentially humanity as a whole.
arXiv:2606. 12683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Over the last decade, building human-level artificial general intelligence has moved from far-fetched speculation to being a concrete next-decade target for many of the largest AI organisations.
arXiv:2609.05894v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The exponentiation of Artificial intelligence (AI) in the recent past has entered a transformative era that has been driven by the growth in large lang...
arXiv:2606. 15708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Welcome to the ninth edition of the AI Index report.
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arXiv:2607. 15164v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence is transforming scientific research - not merely as a more powerful instrument, but as an autonomous participant in the research cycle itself.
Sam Altman has written that we are entering the Intelligence Age, a time when AI will help people become dramatically more capable. The biggest problems of today—across science, medicine, education, national defense—will no longer seem intractable, but will in fact be solvable.
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arXiv:2608. 14407v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a survey of the past and future of AI Scientists: machines capable of automating science.
arXiv:2604. 01363v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose that AI automation is a continuum between: (i) crashing waves where AI capabilities surge abruptly over small sets of tasks, and (ii) rising tides where the increase in AI capabilities is more continuous and broad-based.
arXiv:2606. 15497v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The automation of science is a long-standing ambition in the field of AI.
