ForeCast

Owen Cotton-Barratt is a research consultant working with the Future of Life Institute, and a co-author of several recent Forethought articles on AI tools for epistemics and coordination. Rose Hadshar is a researcher at Forethought. They discuss:

Whether LLMs are now good enough to start building tools that meaningfully help people track what's true

What AI-powered reliability tracking could look like

How AI negotiation systems could work

Structured transparency and automated arms inspection — verifying compliance without revealing confidential information

Whether coordination tech is more likely to enable cooperation or collusion

The vision of a "Sensible Revolution": moving from individual tools to background infrastructure that makes civilisation's decision-making less insane

Why building the good versions of these tools early matters for path dependency

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This is an AI narration of "AI impacts on epistemics: the good, the bad and the ugly" by Owen Cotton-Barratt and Rose Hadshar. The article was first released on 12th April 2026.

You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research. Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

This is an AI narration of "Design sketches: defense-favoured coordination tech" by Owen Cotton-Barratt, Oly Sourbut, Lizka Vaintrob, and Rose Hadshar. The article was first released on 5th April 2026.

You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research. Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

This is an AI narration of "AI for AI for Epistemics" by Owen Cotton-Barratt and Lukas Finnveden. The article was first released on 1st April 2026.

You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research. Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.

This is an AI narration of "AI should (sometimes) be proactively prosocial" by Tom Davidson and William MacAskill. The article was first released on 29th March 2026.

You can read more of our research at forethought.org/research. Thank you to Type III audio for providing these automated narrations.