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Writes Hyperdimensional, a newsletter on AI policy and governance. A White House AI policy adviser in 2025; joined OpenAI on 6 July 2026 to lead its Strategic Futures team.

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  Truly self-sovereign AI agents, running on compute no human owner can switch off, are inevitable rather than merely possible.

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  To be clear, I am not saying the arrival of self-sovereign AI is a good thing. Indeed, I believe there is a chance that the deliberate acts I referenced above will one day be considered crimes, or at least grave sins. Instead, I am saying it is an inevitable thing.

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Co-founder and former chief executive of Uber, now chief executive of CloudKitchens and of Adams, an industrial AI company automating food, mining and transport.

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  Once mining is automated end to end, a mining company is nothing but the owner of some real estate.

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  Will mining get automated? And if it does, not just the movement of the materials, but every part of mining. Then what is a mining company? It just owns real estate.

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

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  There is no human in the loop: you own the loop, and what comes out of it is your work rather than the model's.

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  Another another thing we point out is just there is no human in the loop. You own the loop. The loop is yours. The loop is mine. It would not exist if it was not for me. So I am the owner, right?

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Technology journalist; writes Understanding AI, after reporting at Ars Technica, Vox and the Washington Post.

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  A privately owned self-driving car is a hard sell, because the owner inherits the cleaning, calibration and liability a fleet operator normally carries.

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  I wish Tensor the best, but I think this is going to be a hard sell.

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Director of strategy at Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology; an OpenAI board member until November 2023, and writes Rising Tide.

From one piece The term “AGI” is almost useless at this point 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The term AGI has stopped being useful: today's best systems already meet some people's definitions of it while falling far short of others'.

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  Today’s best AI systems are good enough that they’re now inside the fuzzy conceptual cloud of “AGI-ish”: that is, they’ve surpassed some people’s definitions of AGI, while falling well short of others’.

  The term “AGI” is almost useless at this pointhelentoner.substack.com

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  AI capabilities are jagged rather than smooth, so the different definitions of human-level AI will be met years apart rather than together.

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  This makes it likely that there could be big gaps between when different definitions of AGI are fulfilled.

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Writer of the newsletter bookbear express, on psychology, relationships, non-attachment and taste; based in San Francisco.

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  Dyson vacuum

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  Dyson vacuum. The laser light thing makes me happy. I never vacuumed before I got this, which meant my apartment was constantly in dire straits since I am the proud owner of two extremely fluffy dogs. I love it.

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Technology analyst whose weekly email on tech reaches over 150,000 readers. Publishes essays and an annual presentation on where the industry is going.

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  Cars are becoming Android with no iPhone, which makes Tesla just another handset maker rather than the premium platform owner.

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  The interesting Tesla point is people always looked at it and said, "It's the iPhone of cars." No, it's not. What's happening is that cars are becoming Android with no iPhone. And then Tesla is just selling and is is in that metaphor Tesla is just another android phone maker

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Founder and chief executive of Superhuman, the email client; previously founder of Rapportive, which he sold to LinkedIn; a professional game designer before that.

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  Wondering whether your product will ever be a thing is a dangerous thought, because there is no point at which you would stop second-guessing yourself.

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  But the idea that is this never going to be a thing. I think that's a dangerous thought. We we can't start thinking that way because at what point do you stop second guessing yourself?

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Roboticist; co-founded iRobot and Rethink Robotics, directed the MIT AI Lab, and publishes a scorecard grading his own dated predictions about AI, robots and self-driving.

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  Cars people own will double as driverless taxis when the owner is not using them, in ten major US cities, some time from the mid-2020s.

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  Such "taxi" services where the cars are also used with drivers at other times and with extended geography, in 10 major US cities NET 2025

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  This is unlikely to happen in the first half of this century.

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

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  Once model weights leave their owner's control the loss is irreversible, which is why securing them is the precondition for governing AI at all.

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  If you can’t control where AI weights go (i.e., prevent leaking or theft), you can’t govern the technology.

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Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, working on assembly theory and the physics of life.

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  Astrobiology's standard definition of life — a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution — is wrong in every single one of its words.

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  That’s one of these standard different definitions that a lot of people in my field like to use in astrobiology is life as a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution, which I was once quoted as agreeing with, and I was really offended because I hate that definition. I think it’s terrible, and I think it’s terrible that people use it. I think every word in that definition is actually wrong as a descriptor of life.

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Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

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  Asking when AGI will arrive is a poorly formed question; the answerable question is when a system will be able to do a particular capability.

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  I used to love to speculate on that question. I have realized since that I think it’s very poorly formed, and that people use extremely different definitions for what AGI is. So I think it makes more sense to talk about when we’ll build systems that can do capability X or Y or Z, rather than when we fuzzily cross this one mile marker.

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Founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist investment firm he started in 2004.

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  A large, respected owner on the board is what buys a CEO the time to make decisions that only pay off years later.

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  That large owner on the board can help buy the time necessary for management to behave in a longer term way. And that's, I think, good for all the shareholders.

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First Amendment lawyer and former federal prosecutor; writes The Popehat Report and explains what the law actually says when people shout about free speech.

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  Refusing to advertise on a platform is protected expression, not an attack on the platform owner's free speech.

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  Elon Musk’s sullen yawp amounts to a claim that he has a right for companies to sponsor his speech, no matter what he says. That’s nonsense, both legally and philosophically.

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Alignment researcher at Anthropic; co-led OpenAI's superalignment team until 2024, and writes Musings on the Alignment Problem.

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  Once model weights leave their owner's control the loss is irreversible, which is why securing them is the precondition for governing AI at all.

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  Moreover, model exfiltration is likely impossible to reverse.

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Game designer; wrote A Theory of Fun for Game Design and worked on Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies.

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  A puzzle that invites guessing and then punishes wrong guesses stops the player learning the very method it could have taught.

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  Fundamentally, the game invites you to make guesses, but punishes you for them — and a missed guess doesn’t help you prune the logic space, only the trivia space.

  Why NYT’s Connections makes you feel badraphkoster.com

Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.

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  Delegation and oversight should be matched to how experienced and autonomous a person is at that specific task, not applied uniformly.

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  Manage projects according to the owner's level of task-relevant maturity.

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Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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  The software industry misunderstands backwards compatibility by focusing on narrow legalistic definitions rather than outcomes.

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  We as a profession misunderstand and misuse the concept of backwards compatibility, both upstream and downstream, by focusing on narrow legalistic definitions instead of outcomes.

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