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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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  Extreme power concentration is one of the most worrying risks linked to frontier AI.

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  One of the most worrying risks linked to frontier AI is extreme power concentration.

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Technical staff at METR, where she works on threat modelling and risk assessment for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI.

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  At any given moment the frontier systems are the ones worth worrying about, because by the time open models can do what these agents did, frontier models will be doing something far worse.

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  however at any given point in time I think the systems we need to worry most about by far are the frontier systems. By the time open source systems can do something like the hugging face attack, frontier systems are going to be on a whole another level doing something even crazier than that.

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Professor of psychology at UCLA, where he studies human memory, attention and cognitive ageing, and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.

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  Balance, not memory, is what middle-aged and older people should be worrying about, and almost nobody knows what state theirs is in.

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  And I think, you know, most people when they talk about aging, they're so worried about dementia and, you know, Alzheimer's disease as a specific form, but balance is even more important, I think. And most people aren't even aware of their balance.

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Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

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  A fulfilling 'do nothing' meditation practice requires equally embracing all present sensation rather than avoiding difficult ones.

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  Having a fulfilling Nothing practice requires an equal embrace of all present sensation.

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Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  Extensive preparation before having kids is unnecessary since parents have months to adjust as needs arise.

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  This is part of why I think "getting ready" to have kids is, frankly, ridiculous.

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Professor at Berkeley working on robot learning; co-founded Physical Intelligence, and argues that robots will learn from data rather than be programmed.

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  Having a job to do is what makes perception tractable, which is why an embodied model can learn from vision where a video model cannot.

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  Uh and its perception is in service to fulfilling that purpose. And that is like a really great uh focusing factor. We know that for people this really matters. Like literally what you see is affected by what you're trying to do.

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Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.

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  In Praise of Idleness

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  A collection of timeless essays from philosopher Bertrand Russell, including his famous 'In Praise of Idleness' which challenges our obsession with work and argues that leisure time, properly used, is essential for a fulfilling life and a better society.

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Semiconductor analyst; writes Fabricated Knowledge on the chip industry and the companies in it.

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  If the AI build-out does become a bubble, power and data centres are the assets that will carry it.

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  In today’s world, I think the increase in self-fulfilling asset prices will be due to power and data centers.

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Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.

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  Reading and listening are only preparation; learning happens by doing, and it consists of failing on the way to mastery.

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  The only way to learn is by doing things. That we can read about how to swim and we can read about how to make uh uh uh a vegetarian maki roll, but you will not learn how to do it until you do it. And the reading, the listening is important preparation, but learning is the act of failing on our way to mastery.

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Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.

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  AI must be reoriented toward safety rather than capabilities alone, as preparation is already behind schedule and the costs of unpreparedness outweigh premature action.

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  For AI to be a boon, we must reorient; pushing AI capabilities alone is not enough. We are already behind schedule for this reorientation. The scale of the risks means that we need to be proactive, as the costs of being unprepared far outweigh those of premature preparation.

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Game designer; chief creative officer at Spry Fox (Triple Town, Realm of the Mad God) and author of the Lost Garden design blog.

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  A designer’s obligation is to satisfy real human needs rather than to manufacture needs that pay.

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  Every team should ensure they are fulfilling real human needs over merely inducing needs for profit.

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Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.

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  The probability of a self-fulfilling bad equilibrium in sovereign debt markets depends little on the debt level itself, but is much reduced by a rule linking the primary balance to debt service increases.

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  I have argued that the probability of a bad equilibrium is only marginally influenced by the level of debt, but can be much reduced by a contingent rule making the primary balance react to an increase in debt service.

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  A central bank can eliminate a self-fulfilling ('sunspot') debt crisis simply by credibly committing to buy as many bonds as needed at the low interest rate.

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  This is precisely the role the central bank can play. By announcing that it stands ready to buy the bonds that investors want to sell at the price associated with the low interest rate, and credibly indicating that it has deep enough pockets to buy whatever is needed, it can eliminate the bad equilibrium.

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Philosopher and historian of existential risk; wrote Human Extinction, and coined "TESCREAL" with Timnit Gebru for the cluster of ideologies they argue underpins the AI industry.

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  Longtermism, which treats fulfilling humanity's long-term potential as the overriding moral priority, is a worldview worth defending.

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  I believe this needs to change because, as a former longtermist who published an entire book four years ago in defence of the general idea, I have come to see this worldview as quite possibly the most dangerous secular belief system in the world today.

Sociologist and founder of Bismarck Analysis; writes on live players, institutional decay and why societies lose knowledge.

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  We behave as though we already live in a scientifically planned society that cannot collapse on any timescale worth worrying about.

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  We act as if we are already living in a scientifically-planned society, immune to collapse on a time scale that any of us have to worry about.

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