Claims / C-T6NNJ080KH

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The AI 2027 team now expects AI that out-researches top lab staff during 2027, mainly on METR's partly redacted evidence.

The claim

The AI Futures Project, whose August 2026 models gave under 4% to progress being sped up 1.7x by November, now forecasts that an AI able to replace a lab's top research staff (a Superhuman AI Researcher) will likely arrive during 2027 absent a deliberate slowdown, with a 35-65% chance of AI that automates all white-collar work before 2028. Several independent extrapolations agree, but the single biggest input is METR's report, and the AI share of the speed-up rests on evidence Anthropic redacted.

Evidence 5 passages

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    Now, all of us forecast** **that Superhuman AI Researcher (SAR) will likely arrive at some point in 2027** (assuming no substantial deliberate slowdown).

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    We also predict a 35-65% chance that Top-Expert-Dominating AI (TED-AI), AIs that can automate all white-collar work, will arrive before 2028.

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    While there were many factors and sources of evidence that influenced us, the single biggest source was the METR report.

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    The 80%/1.7x estimates have no comparable public support.

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    We strongly urge Anthropic to release enough information such that external observers can make a complete assessment.

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