en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Futures_Project#AI_2027
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The AI Futures Project was founded in 2025
This founding year is wrong: the organization was already active in 2024.
Full reasoning
Official and IRS-derived records show the AI Futures Project existed in 2024, not 2025.
- The project's own Substack published a post titled "Coming soon" on December 6, 2024 that says: "This is AI Futures Project." That means the organization was already publicly operating under that name in 2024.
- ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer, which uses IRS data, lists AI Futures Project Inc as "Tax-exempt since Oct. 2024." A nonprofit cannot have been first founded in 2025 if it already had tax-exempt status in October 2024.
So the claim that the AI Futures Project was founded in 2025 is contradicted by both the organization's own 2024 publication and IRS-derived nonprofit records.
2 sources
- Coming soon - by Jonas Vollmer - AI Futures Project
Dec 06, 2024 ... This is AI Futures Project.
- Ai Futures Project Inc - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Ai Futures Project Inc ... Berkeley, CA ... Tax-exempt since Oct. 2024 ... EIN: 99-4320292
The essay contains a detailed forecast of a more positive outcome where these recommendations are followed.
AI 2040: Plan A is explicitly presented by its authors as a recommendation, not a forecast or prediction.
Full reasoning
This sentence mischaracterizes AI 2040: Plan A. The authors explicitly say the piece is not a forecast/prediction.
In the project's announcement post for AI 2040: Plan A, they write:
- "It's called Plan A because it's a recommendation, not a prediction."
- "It's what we think should happen, not what will happen"
So describing the essay as a "detailed forecast" is incorrect. The project presents it as a normative scenario about what should be done, not as its forecast of what is likely to happen.
1 source
- AI 2040: Plan A
It's called Plan A because it's a recommendation, not a prediction. It's what we think should happen, not what will happen, though we think it's plausible enough to aim for.