Philosophies & Movements
Handoverism
A proposed label for handing some decision-making or control to advanced AI while still treating human interests as the goal. In this usage, it differs from AI successionism, which favors AI replacing humanity as the main shaper of the future. The word is not a settled technical or philosophical category, and authors may draw the distinction differently.
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Discussed by Scott Alexander in the 2026 Astral Codex Ten essay 'Against Against Handover,' which distinguishes human-oriented handover from successionism. This documents one author's usage rather than an agreed definition or a single established coiner.