Machinocene

The case against a decisive strategic advantage from superintelligence

Brodie vs. Bostrom

Nov 12 • 

Kevin Kohler

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October 2025

A Culture of Progress

Reflections on the Second Progress Conference

Oct 23 • 

Kevin Kohler

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Diplomacy on a deadline

Many thought leaders have argued we may eventually need some international agreement on AGI.

Oct 9 • 

Kevin Kohler

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European Progress should be political

On September 26, the Swedish think tank Global Policy Research Group organized the first European Progress Conference in Brussels.

Oct 2 • 

Kevin Kohler

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August 2025

Moore’s Policy Drift

What frontier AI governance can learn from the Wassenaar Arrangement's three zone diffusion model

Aug 10 • 

Kevin Kohler

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July 2025

We are all Kevin Roose now

Remember when New York Times journalist Kevin Roose made headlines reporting how Microsoft’s Bing chatbot (a version of GPT-4) tried to talk him into…

Jul 29 • 

Kevin Kohler

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Make Europe Cool Again

As I’m writing this, Europe has been suffering under a heatwave for about a week.

Jul 4 • 

Kevin Kohler

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June 2025

History should be taught with graphs

Here’s an experiment:

Jun 26 • 

Kevin Kohler

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May 2025

Many-to-One

How AI is enabling a new communication structure

May 28 • 

Kevin Kohler

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An AI companion service has customers, not partners

The “From AGI with love” mini-series looks at the future prospect of romantic human-AI relationships.

May 8 • 

Kevin Kohler

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We need to prepare for a post-labor economy

In March, EpochAI released an AI automation prediction model, which predicts rising wages for the near-term, but a rapidly declining labor share of…

May 1 • 

Kevin Kohler

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February 2025

Mr. Doge goes to Washington

There is a new government department in town.

Feb 18 • 

Kevin Kohler

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