Production Planning Begins: February 2029
No longer R&D. We're in deployment planning now. The tech leaves the lab in 12-18 months. Safety review #37. What's worst-case scenario? Spent 3 hours brainstorming. List is long.
Production Planning Begins
January 22, 2029
No longer in R&D. We're in deployment planning now.
Translation: The tech we've been building? It's about to leave the lab.
Timeline: 12-18 months until public announcement.
Exciting? Yes. Terrifying? Also yes.
February 11, 2029
Safety review #37 (not joking). Question: "What's the worst-case scenario?"
We spent 3 hours brainstorming.
The list is... long.
Mitigation plans in place. Mostly.
I hope it's enough.
March 17, 2029
AI system demonstrated strategic planning over 1,000-step horizons today.
For comparison: Humans struggle beyond 5-10 steps.
It's playing 4D chess while we play checkers.
Still calling it "narrow AI."
The "narrow" part feels like denial.
Deployment planning meant imagining everything that could go wrong.
We imagined a lot.
We didn't imagine enough.
— Recovered from personal archive, 2030
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