If Artificial General Intelligence has an okay outcome, what will be the reason?

Question

Duplicate of https://manifold.markets/EliezerYudkowsky/if-artificial-general-intelligence with user-submitted answers.  An outcome is "okay" if it gets at least 20% of the maximum attainable cosmopolitan value that could've been attained by a positive Singularity (a la full Coherent Extrapolated Volition done correctly), and existing humans don't suffer death or any other awful fates.

Manifold Markets · Answer

Per Manifold Markets prediction market, Humanity coordinates to prevent the creation of potentially-unsafe AIs., followed by The response to AI advancements or failures makes some governments delay the timelines and We make risk-conservative requests to extract alignment-related work out of AI-systems that were boxed prior to becoming superhuman. We somehow manage to achieve a positive feedback-loop in alignment/verification-abilities. are most likely. See the market for live updates (561 traders, as of Oct 7, 2026).