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Chief Scientist at OpenAI. Worked on the research that turned scaled reinforcement learning into reasoning models, and writes about where he thinks that path leads.

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  International coordination on AI development should become a top priority for governments around the world.

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  And I believe that international coordination on future AI development needs to become a top priority for governments around the world.

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Co-founded Neuralink and founded Science Corp, which is building a retinal implant; writes about neural interfaces and biology.

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  Restoring vision to the blind is a good business, and a company doing it should aim to be profitable rather than permanently funded.

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  Yeah, well I mean becoming profitable or at least have like having the ability to do this forever is a super high priority. Restoring vision to the blind is pretty good business if you can actually do that.

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Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.

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  Bus grids cannot function as a city's primary transit backbone at the scale of a very large, low-density city like Los Angeles, no matter how much priority the buses get.

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  But in fact, the scale of buses is rather short, and in a Los Angeles-size city they are hopeless, no matter how much priority they have.

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AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).

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  Long-context efficiency has become a central priority in LLM development because agent harnesses require working with increasingly long contexts.

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  In 2026, long-context efficiency is king as more and more LLMs get plugged into agent harnesses (OpenClaw etc.), which requires working with longer and longer contexts.

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Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.

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  Health should be a person's top life priority, above the things they currently rank ahead of it.

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  In fact, I want to be the strongest voice in your mind encouraging you to make health your top life priority.

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Philosopher at Oxford; co-founded effective altruism and 80,000 Hours, wrote Doing Good Better and What We Owe the Future, and now works on what a good future would actually contain.

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  Whether anyone can actually do anything about how good the future is, rather than whether it matters, is the strongest objection to prioritising it.

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  I see this as the strongest argument against the better futures perspective, and the reason why I don’t feel confident that work on Flourishing is higher-priority than work on Surviving, rather than merely in the same ballpark.

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  The near-term goal should be a state of the world that can steer itself towards good outcomes, not any particular end state.

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  From my point of view, the key priority in the world today is to get us closer to viatopia, not to some particular narrow end-state.

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  Improving how good the future turns out to be, given that humanity survives, is roughly as high a priority as preventing extinction.

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  This essay series will argue that work on Flourishing is in the same ballpark of priority as work on Surviving.

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Growth advisor and operator who has led growth at Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox and SurveyMonkey.

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  As search turns into an AI interface, a company with no earned acquisition channel on its roadmap is in serious trouble within one to two years.

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  Focusing on these earned channels that you own becomes the utmost priority. And if you don't have them on your growth road map, you're going to be in some really big trouble over the next year to two years because your cost of acquisition is only going to go up.

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Independent AI policy researcher; led policy research at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly as senior adviser for AGI readiness.

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  Securing model weights against theft is a more urgent policy priority than safety research, because security is built out of atoms and takes calendar time that safety does not.

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  Increasing the incentive and technical ability of AI companies to have good security is a very high priority, and in my view even more urgent than safety (though that’s also very important).

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Journalist and author writing on politics, liberalism and ideas; a contributor to Quillette and co-author of a book on Christopher Hitchens.

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  Making humanity's long-term potential the overriding priority licenses imposing real costs on people who are alive today.

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  The problem with these grand ambitions—saving humanity from extinction and enabling our species to reach its full potential millions of years from now—is that they ostensibly justify any cost in the present.

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