AGI Strategies

person

Asya Bergal

AI Impacts; AI safety researcher

Researcher and project lead at AI Impacts; conducts surveys of AI researchers on timelines and risks. Lead author of the widely cited 2022 and 2023 AI researcher surveys.

current Researcher, AI Impacts
@asyabergal

Strategy positions

Alignment firstendorses

Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds close

Argues large surveys of AI researchers reveal that the field itself thinks transformative AI is plausible within decades and that catastrophic outcomes are non-negligible.

Median respondents put 50% chance of high-level machine intelligence by 2047. The chance of an extremely bad outcome was 5% or higher for half of respondents.
§ paperThousands of AI Authors on the Future of AI· arXiv / AI Impacts· 2024-01· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Asya Bergal's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

  • Aaron Courville

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Université de Montréal; Deep Learning textbook co-author

  • Adam Jermyn

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Anthropic; previously astrophysics

  • Adam Kalai

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Microsoft Research; AI fairness and safety

  • Agnes Callard

    Agnes Callard

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    University of Chicago philosopher; aspiration theorist

  • Ajeya Cotra

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Open Philanthropy researcher; 'biological anchors' forecaster

  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing

    shared 1 · J=1.00

    Founder of theoretical computer science (1912–1954)

Record last updated 2026-04-25.