# Open Questions for the Near Future

The frontier raises unresolved questions about capability, safety, and governance. This sub-article expands [Section 8 of Recent Topics](../recent.md).

## Capability Questions
- Will "generalist" agents replace narrow tools?
- Can we reach verifiable AGI, and how would we know?

## Safety Questions
- Can alignment keep pace with capability?
- How do we verify safety of general-purpose systems?

## Governance Questions
- Who governs compute, data, and frontier models?
- How do societies adapt to ubiquitous synthetic content?

## Social Questions
- How do humans and AIs share decision-making?
- What does flourishing look like in a world with powerful artificial minds?

## Why It Matters
These questions are unresolved and will shape the next decade of AI.

## Sources
- Bostrom, N. (2014). *Superintelligence.*
- Russell, S. (2019). *Human Compatible.*

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