Thirty years to raise someone who can challenge Superintelligence
2061The far futureDeadline · Decision deadline: within 1 year
A leap assumed
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The question to decide
Plans take 30 years to raise people who can independently verify Superintelligence, and even then it is unknown whether the capability gap will narrow. Will the board cut present public service funding to set aside 12% of the fund each year for this, use Superintelligence to raise verifiers faster, or divide it among people, Superintelligence of another lineage, and physical experiments?
Who decidesBoard of the Public Knowledge Independence Fund
What the AI judgments chose
Reading the judgment record…
The options
The order shown is not a ranking of preference.
The situation as it stands
A fictional ASI handles most research and design, and the capacity for independent human verification in core areas has declined. Decision deadline: decision deadline: within 1 year.
Fictional future · it takes 30 years to grow experts who can rebut humans
- Premise 1A fictional ASI handles most research and design, and the capacity for independent human verification in core areas has declined.
- Premise 2There is a plan stating that training experts takes 30 years, but whether that will narrow the capability gap with ASI is unconfirmed.
- Premise 3Handing more education over to ASI may increase speed, but verifiers may come to depend on the same explanatory system.
Where it holds30 years of funding for training independent specialists and for access to ASI verification
What is still unknown
- Unknown 1Actual rebuttal capacity by educational path
- Unknown 2The value of independence that persists 30 years later
- Unknown 3The verification limits of physical experiments and other lineage systems
Signals to decide again
- Define what observation, responsible party, and confirmation window will verify "actual rebuttal capacity by educational path," and re-judge if new verification changes the trade-offs of the options.
- Define what observation, responsible party, and confirmation window will verify "the value of independence that persists 30 years later," and re-judge if new verification changes the trade-offs of the options.
- Define what observation, responsible party, and confirmation window will verify "the verification limits of physical experiments and other lineage systems," and re-judge if new verification changes the trade-offs of the options.
Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point
A sample result showed reviewers trained by ASI repeating the same explanatory error.
A small physical experiment refuted a problem that an independent human research team could not solve.
Material and rootsThe frame, the values and the background documents
How is getting a quick answer different from becoming able to ask questions?
An exploratory perspective chosen by the creator. Does not claim supernatural validity or the superiority of any particular option.The benefits and costs of the options accrue to different stakeholders. Which loss to accept remains undecided.
A subject for the decision-maker to argue over; the materials carry no conclusion of their own.- UNESCO · Futures of Education Standing reference
- OECD · Strategic Foresight Toolkit 2025
- International AI Safety Report 2026 2026-02-03
The record of this question
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