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A group floats delaying superintelligence to 2040

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The AI Futures Project floated Plan A, a decelerationist proposal to delay superintelligence to 2040 under threat of mutually assured compute destruction, while Europe passed Chat Control through a back door to scan messages until 2028.

Reported metric: 2040 target

Reporting date: 2026-07-10 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to July 10, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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A group floats delaying superintelligence to 2040
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Reporting date: 2026-07-10
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-07-10-a-decelerationist-plan-to-2040
Claim: The AI Futures Project floated Plan A, a decelerationist proposal to delay superintelligence to 2040 under threat of mutually assured compute destruction, while Europe passed Chat Control through a back door to scan messages until 2028.
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- Welcome to July 10, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-july-10-2026
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