Can the frontier keep building?
Compute, money, and power set the pace the physical world can support.
Progress, constraints, forecasts, and safety
Follow what labs can build, what systems can do, whether progress is compounding, and whether safeguards can keep pace.
Measurement first, interpretation second. No composite risk score.
Each question points to its dedicated evidence or safety section. Start with the current reading; follow a link only when you want to audit it.
Compute, money, and power set the pace the physical world can support.
Algorithms translate resources into useful autonomy—but the cleanest measurements are still young and imperfect.
AI automating AI research is the hinge in fast-takeoff forecasts, and the least settled part of the story.
Policy is observable. Alignment, verification, and real-world control remain open questions—not inputs to a pretend safety score.
Black line = measured reality
Colored marker = a scoreable published claim
Open any claim = source, evidence, confidence, and the strongest counterargument
The overview stays short. Evidence, forecasts, safety, and the research map now have distinct homes.
Reality lines, AI R&D evidence, and data coverage.
→ForecastsWhich claims face a test next?Upcoming deadlines, later evidence, milestones, and revisions.
→SafetyWhere could harm enter the chain?Eight questions from hazardous behavior through recovery.
→Research mapWhich open question matters to you?Ten cross-cutting questions with unlike evidence kept separate.
→These are the nearest comparable deadlines still in play. They are checkpoints to revisit—not probabilities that an event will happen.
various (vintaged)
Hyperscaler capex →AI 2027
Largest known single training run →various (vintaged)
Frontier training compute →