Way more positive change coming from AI than negative change, at much more rapid rate.
Predictor: Ben Horowitz · ep#232 "Ben Horowitz: xAI Executive Exodus, Apple's AI Crisis, The Pace of AI | EP #232" · source
Prediction text
Way more positive change coming from AI than negative change, at much more rapid rate. | there's way more positive change coming than uh than negative change at a much more rapid rate.
Verbatim quote
there's way more positive change coming than uh than negative change at a much more rapid rate.
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Milestone chain
- 2026-06-01 → 2028-06-30pendingAnthropic Economic Index or BLS-published AI labor study shows net welfare gainHow: Anthropic Economic Index, BLS Monthly Labor Review, or peer-reviewed paper concludes aggregate welfare/productivity gain from AI exceeds aggregate displacement losses with quantified bounds (e.g., +1% GDP vs -0.6pp employment)Source: Anthropic labor-market research framework + BLS AI projections provide measurement infrastructureconf 40%
- 2026-12-01 → 2027-12-31pendingAI-driven scientific discoveries: >=3 Nature/Science papers in 2027 with AI as primary discovery methodHow: Three or more Nature/Science publications in 2027 in which AI system (named, documented) is principal driver of novel finding (vs assistive tool); positive examples like AlphaFold, materials discoverySource: Building on AlphaFold/AlphaMissense pattern; cumulative count is positive-change rate proxyconf 85%
- 2026-06-01 → 2028-06-30pendingAI-attributable harms: aggregate reported AI-caused fatalities, mass-disinformation events, fraud lossesHow: AI Incident Database, OECD AI Incident Monitor, or equivalent shows AI-attributed fatalities <1000/year cumulative AND fraud/disinfo losses <$50B/year (negative side of ledger)Source: OECD AI Incident Monitor + AIID provide negative-impact measurement; ratio test against positive impactsconf 60%Notes: Quantifies the negative side of the positive vs negative ratio claim.
- 2026-09-01 → 2028-06-30pendingAI-attributable mortality reduction documented: >=2 FDA-approved AI-discovered drugs reach patientsHow: FDA Orange Book or drug-approval announcements show 2+ AI-discovered/AI-designed therapeutics approved for marketing, with peer-reviewed evidence of mortality or morbidity reduction in target populationSource: Insilico, Recursion, Isomorphic, Atomwise pipelines maturing; FDA approvals are observable positive-impact signalconf 55%Notes: Concrete positive impact metric to weigh against negatives.
- 2026-09-01 → 2028-06-30pendingMainstream sentiment indicator: Pew/Gallup AI-net-positive survey crosses 50%How: Pew Research, Gallup, or YouGov national poll shows >=50% of US adults agreeing AI's net impact on society is positive, vs current ~35-40% baselineSource: Public sentiment is messy reflection of net-positive claim; tracks narrative shiftconf 30%
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Top incoming (parents)
Edges that influence THIS node's belief
| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 234_012 Anthropic revenue will cross OpenAI revenue in middle of 202 — Peter Diamandis | 67.1% | 0.500 | 0.050 | -0.072 |
| prereq | SEM_042 2025 will be the definitive year that agentic systems finall — Kevin Weil | 73.8% | 0.500 | 0.050 | -0.044 |
| prereq | 235_002 Anthropic will exceed OpenAI in revenue this year (2026). — Dave Blundin | 74.6% | 0.500 | 0.050 | -0.040 |
| prereq | SEM_012 Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling — Jensen Huang | 75.0% | 0.500 | 0.050 | -0.037 |
| killer | TK03 AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | 10.0% | 0.050 | 0.500 | +0.034 |
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Predictions THIS node influences
| Kind | Node | Their prob | P(c|s=T) | P(c|s=F) | Δ implied |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 246_017 Europa Clipper will arrive at Jupiter in 2030, conducting 50 — Peter Diamandis | 37.7% | 0.650 | 0.050 | -0.079 |
| prereq | 247_035 Dario Amodei will solve most/all neurological diseases by en — Dario Amodei | 38.8% | 0.700 | 0.050 | -0.068 |
| prereq | 246_016 Dragonfly nuclear-powered octicopter arrives at Titan in 203 — Peter Diamandis | 35.6% | 0.650 | 0.050 | -0.057 |
| prereq | 235_030 Ray Kurzweil predicts Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) by 203 — Ray Kurzweil | 39.2% | 0.750 | 0.050 | -0.052 |
| prereq | SEM_034 True artificial general intelligence will be achieved betwee — Demis Hassabis | 28.7% | 0.550 | 0.050 | -0.030 |
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Beneficiaries (23)
Adverse (6)
Prerequisites (8)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 235_002 | Anthropic will exceed OpenAI in revenue this year (2026). | AI | — |
| prereq | SEM_008 | Training runs costing $10 billion for a single model will commence sometime in 2025. | AI | — |
| prereq | 234_012 | Anthropic revenue will cross OpenAI revenue in middle of 2026 | Markets/Stocks | — |
| prereq | SEM_012 | Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling human headcount — achieved by deploying AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) across engineering. | AI/Manufacturing | — |
| prereq | SEM_042 | 2025 will be the definitive year that agentic systems finally hit the mainstream. | AI/Agents | — |
| killer | TK14 | Superbubble Pop (S&P 500 -40%, Moonshot Capital Evaporates) | — | — |
| killer | TK01 | AGI Capability Plateau (2026-27 Training Stall) | — | — |
| killer | TK03 | AI Regulatory Moratorium (EU/US Capability Freeze) | — | — |
Dependents (5)
| Type | Pred | Title | Domain | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prereq | 235_030 | Ray Kurzweil predicts Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) by 2033. | Biotech/Longevity | — |
| prereq | 247_035 | Dario Amodei will solve most/all neurological diseases by end of decade | Biotech/Longevity | — |
| prereq | 246_017 | Europa Clipper will arrive at Jupiter in 2030, conducting 50 passes near Europa. | Space | — |
| prereq | 246_016 | Dragonfly nuclear-powered octicopter arrives at Titan in 2034. | Space | — |
| prereq | SEM_034 | True artificial general intelligence will be achieved between 2032 and 2042 — 'first we solve AI, then use AI to solve everything else'. | AI/AGI | — |
Linked documents (2)
| Sim | Source | Title | Market prob | Polarity | Reviewed | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.613 | arxiv | Negative Before Positive: Asymmetric Valence Processing in Large Language Models | — | mentions | pending | 2026-05-07 |
| 0.598 | arxiv | Negation Neglect: When models fail to learn negations in training | — | mentions | pending | 2026-05-13 |
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