2026 After AGI: Accelerating the benefits of powerful AI
Most leading AI labs expect AGI within a few years. (We define AGI as a powerful AI that can do essentially everything a human can do from a computer.) But what would it mean, in practice, for the transition to AGI to go well? What concrete benefits should we expect, who receives them, and how do we get there?
This workshop creates space to think seriously about those questions. One part of it is simply taking time to envision what benefits AGI could bring, ambitiously and specifically. Another part is identifying what might stand in the way – technically, institutionally, politically – and what could help.
Capability alone won’t be enough. Realizing the benefits will require solving a different set of problems: adoption, infrastructure, incentives, coordination. This workshop brings together people building AI and people thinking about how its benefits actually reach the world.
We’re looking for ~50 researchers, builders, funders, and policy thinkers who want to discuss concretely what “going well” could look like.
Strong project ideas from the workshop can be connected to funders in our network.
Format
Based on pre-workshop input from participants, we’ll arrive with a shortlist of high-leverage benefit areas and a preliminary diagnosis of what’s blocking them. The workshop focuses on solutions.
