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Situational Awareness: Leopold Aschenbrenner's Forecast for the Decade Ahead
In his essay series 'Situational Awareness', former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner outlines a trajectory leading to AGI and superintelligence before the end of the decade. He predicts trillion-dollar compute clusters, severe national security challenges, and eventual government takeover of frontier AI development.
From Video: Lev Selector's Weekly AI Updates (7 August 2026)