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Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  Controllability, not accuracy, is the single biggest breakthrough agents still need — an agent that is right most of the time is useful if you can steer it the rest of the way.

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  We don't need the the agents to be 100% accurate, 100% high quality in order for us to use it. It could, you know, literally be 80% and then we help it the rest of the way, or it could be 99% we help it the rest of the way. And so I I think controllability is probably the single biggest breakthrough that we need for agents at every single level.

  Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIAyoutube.com

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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  In coding agents, untrusted repositories should be treated as hostile by default because they can steer the agent into risky actions via approved tools.

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  untrusted repos should be treated as hostile by default because they can steer the agent toward reading files, running commands, or sending data through approved tools.

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Co-founder and CEO of Until, a reversible-cryopreservation company, and previously the founder of the Longevity Fund.

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  Cryopreservation is tractable because ice formation is a probabilistic process you can steer, not a threshold that flips.

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  but ice sort of forms through a process of random nucleation and then extension. And this is cool because you can uh modulate the like sort of nucleation the rate of nucleation and extension to then modulate the probability of ice formation.

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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Background agents do not work for real development, because steering a model as it drifts is the job, and you cannot steer what you are not watching.

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  Still don’t see how this could be moved to background agents. I steer the models a lot as I notice them drifting off - that’s much harder if they run in the background.

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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Cursor

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  Cursor/GPT-5 takes FOREVER and doesn’t share its thinking, so it’s hard to steer.

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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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  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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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  When something repulses you, steer into it to learn more about it instead of avoiding it.

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  If you notice that something repulses you and you have like a revulsion response to something, steer into it to learn more about it instead of avoiding it.

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Astrophysicist at Barnard College; wrote Black Hole Blues and How the Universe Got Its Spots, and directs sciences at Pioneer Works.

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  Inside a black hole the singularity is not a place you could steer around; it is a moment in your future you can no more avoid than time itself.

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  In other words, the singularity ends up in their future and they can no more avoid the singularity than they can avoid time coming their way. There’s no shenanigans you can do once you’re inside the black hole to try to skirt it.

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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 core challenge of AI alignment is “steerability” 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The core of the alignment problem is steerability — whether an AI can be reliably steered anywhere at all — which is a different question from whose values it is steered towards.

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  I see this as a totally fair question that totally misses the point of what “alignment” was trying to refer to: whether we’d be able to reliably steer advanced systems towards anything at all.

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  Nobody has built a model that resists targeted jailbreaking, so the ability of AI companies to steer their own models is still limited.

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  But no one has (yet) been able to develop a model that is resistant to targeted “jailbreaking” that evades these restrictions.

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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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  Good Work: Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition

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  A personal exploration of how to reclaim that fire inside of you and steer it toward your 'good work' while still being true to yourself.

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Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.

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  Most people now spend their time online inside a handful of platforms, seeing what the owners of those platforms steer them towards.

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  Most of us spend our days within the confines of a handful of platforms, wandering around to admire what people have done with the seeds they are allowed in the space they are allotted, with platform owners directing us to the gardens they think we might like — or, more often, the ones they think will keep us within their walls for longer.

  We can have a different webcitationneeded.news