Scaling Laws & Compute · 2024
Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead
Extrapolated compute, algorithmic-efficiency, and investment trendlines to argue that broadly human-level AI could arrive within a few years, and drew out the national-security implications.
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The long essay projects the straight lines on graphs of training compute and efficiency forward, argues that the gap from current models to human-level research assistants is a few more orders of magnitude, and discusses security and governance consequences. It is a prediction and advocacy piece, not an empirical result, and its timelines are contested. It captured a strand of frontier-lab thinking in 2024.
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Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
Situational Awareness extrapolates scaling and compute trendlines
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- Record ID
- P-512
- Record created
- 2026-07-13
- Last reviewed
- 2026-07-14
- Record version
- 2
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