# AI 2027 Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/ai-2027/ 20 people recommended AI 2027 in Hacker News comments, 4 had mixed feelings and 28 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 9 of 12 months, in 25 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** Criticized more than recommended: critics say the timeline is too compressed and later predictions have not held up; those who recommend it see it as a concrete, readable story of how AI could unfold, and several say parts of it have held up. Summary written by Claude from the comments below. ## What people warn about - Timeline too compressed, predictions wrong (3 comments in the sample): "Even the silly AI2027 project was predicting society destroying levels of AI arriving next year and that has aged poorly." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049287)) "So in less than 3 years, their exponential growth curve doomsday prediction has moved back 3 years." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871615)) "Everything starting from mid-2026 is incredibly wrong, which is pretty poor predictive performance" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50050567)) - Fear-mongering doom narrative (3 comments in the sample): "they basically fear monger that AI will usurp control over all governments and kill us all in the next two years" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46006575)) "Then you get ai 2027 and its more fear mongering, just inside the AI echo chamber" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871066)) "bullshit campfire ASI horror stories written by nontechnical sorts in the wishy washy invented field of AI safety" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700259)) - Reads as AI company marketing (3 comments in the sample): "I regard AI 2027 as essentially Anthropic fanfiction, except usually fanfiction is written better." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50147524)) "Looks like openai used this fanfiction as its marketing strategy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46916810)) "provides free advertising by sketching the doom scenarios that AI providers love so much" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49565219)) - Naive on politics and China (2 comments in the sample): "It tries to delve into foreign policy and international politics but does so in such a naive way that it is painful to read." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46006672)) "The predictions for China are completely fantastical - they are not falling behind" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50049532)) ## Why people recommend it - Several predictions seen as accurate (5 comments in the sample): "has pretty accurately predicted the current state of affairs today" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48866638)) "Fictional timeline that holds up pretty well so far" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679929)) "This prediction has proven quite accurate so far." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49731933)) - Concrete scenario grounds debate (5 comments in the sample): "It's a concrete story of how this could play out, and sometimes stories are more convincing than abstract arguments." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622813)) "I've found https://ai-2027.com/ to be a compelling description of how this could happen." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624360)) "it at least provides a step-by-step outline to ground debate in the first place" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49592181)) - Recommended as worthwhile reading (4 comments in the sample): "I really encourage folks to read the AI 2027 and related scenarios." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690297)) "I really, really encourage folks to read the AI 2027 paper." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49588251)) "See "AI 2027" or "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" for some more ideas." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700201)) - Entertaining and gripping read (3 comments in the sample): "AI 2027 is an entertaining read. Its timeline is way too compressed IMO, but it's plausible." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49628687)) "This is eerie. It's like a time traveler." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550345)) "you would probably enjoy/be terrified by" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213671)) ## What people recommend instead - [AI 2040](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ai-2040-plan-a/): 7 recommend, 2 mixed, 6 criticize ## The badge A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged. ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "AI 2027", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ai-2027/ (20 recommend, 4 mixed, 28 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026). Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.