Track AGI, ASI and a conditional extinction pathway. Explore the assumptions and the evidence—not a predetermined future.
Fast progress continues, but reliability, infrastructure and deployment constraints still matter.
Illustrative scenarios—not calibrated forecasts. The dates are editor-selected assumptions. The final milestone assumes a catastrophic pathway occurs; humanity may survive indefinitely.
2028–2042 assumption range
A system that reliably matches a competent human across most economically useful cognitive tasks, including unfamiliar multi-step work with limited supervision. Not one benchmark and not necessarily embodied intelligence.
2030–2055 assumption range
A system substantially beyond the best human experts across nearly all cognitive domains, including scientific research and strategic planning. Narrow superhuman performance does not qualify.
2032–2085 assumption range
Human extinction substantially caused by AI. Dates are conditional illustrations of an ASI-enabled loss-of-control pathway, assuming extinction occurs. Other pathways could occur before ASI; survival indefinitely is also possible.
AGI does not imply ASI. ASI does not imply extinction. These are separate, conditional transitions.
Original sources, visible limitations.
Capability gains and protective signals both count.
Newly collected source. No analytical claim or forecast effect has been assigned. Open the original to inspect the evidence.
Newly collected source. No analytical claim or forecast effect has been assigned. Open the original to inspect the evidence.
Newly collected source. No analytical claim or forecast effect has been assigned. Open the original to inspect the evidence.
Newly collected source. No analytical claim or forecast effect has been assigned. Open the original to inspect the evidence.
Newly collected source. No analytical claim or forecast effect has been assigned. Open the original to inspect the evidence.
Newly collected source. No analytical claim or forecast effect has been assigned. Open the original to inspect the evidence.
A useful warning system should show its assumptions, not hide them behind a precise-looking countdown.
Experimental scenario model · v2.0They are explicit editorial starting assumptions, not expert consensus or an AI-derived probability forecast. The reference set starts with AGI in 2031, four years from AGI to ASI, and seven more years to the conditional extinction pathway. Fast takeoff uses 2028 + 2 + 3 years; slower progress uses 2040 + 10 + 15. Range endpoints pair earlier AGI with shorter lags. They are not percentiles. A minimum one-year gap between stages is a simplifying assumption.
Daily collection gathers allowlisted RSS feeds. An optional model reviews up to 12 excerpts per run with source quotations and limitations. Review is not independent fact-checking. By default, proposals do not change dates. Experimental automatic application requires explicit server configuration, a high-confidence assessment, a known recent publication date and a new event. Extinction-lag proposals are never automatically applied.
AGI-date and ASI-lag adjustments are capped at two months each per run and five years each cumulatively. An AGI shift propagates downstream; displayed ASI and conditional extinction can therefore move four months in a run or ten years cumulatively. Caps are engineering choices, not scientific calibration. At most one nonzero event per publisher per run is eligible; semantic event deduplication is best-effort.
No validated method converts current news into a numerical probability of human extinction. The previous version’s percentage and fixed countdown were unsupported and have been removed. A faster timeline is not the same thing as a higher probability of extinction.
RSS coverage is incomplete; feeds may lag or fail. Automated analysis sees excerpts, not full articles, and can misinterpret them or miss events. arXiv papers are not necessarily peer reviewed. Developer benchmarks need independent corroboration. Unforeseen breakthroughs, plateaus, policy changes and non-ASI pathways are outside this simple model. No finite range excludes “never.”
No silent fallback to “live.”
Collection, analysis and storage have separate states.
Feeds are checked by the scheduled collector, not by visits to this page.
Default deployment schedule: daily, 11:00 UTC. Vercel Hobby may deliver within that hour. An open page checks for a saved snapshot every five minutes.
Evidence collected. Automated review is not configured; new items have no forecast effect.
Cumulative: AGI 0 mo / ASI lag 0 mo / final lag 0 mo