// curated_library

Seminal papers, key talks, and essential videos from the people shaping AI — filtered for signal, not noise.

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Machines of Loving Grace

Dario Amodei — 2024

Amodei's long-form vision of how transformative AI could compress decades of scientific progress into a few years — covering biology, neuroscience, mental health, economic development and more. Essential reading on AI's potential upside.

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On the Importance of AI Safety Research

Dario Amodei — 2023

Anthropic's CEO on why safety and capability research must proceed together, not in sequence. The clearest articulation of the 'race to the top' philosophy from inside the frontier lab.

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Planning for AGI and Beyond

Sam Altman — 2023

OpenAI's CEO lays out the organisation's transition plan for when AGI arrives — governance structures, iterative deployment, and why 'slow is impossible'. Candid and worth reading critically.

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The Intelligence Age

Sam Altman — 2024

Altman's argument that we're entering a new era of human prosperity driven by AI tools accessible to everyone — optimistic, controversial, and impossible to ignore.

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Software 2.0

Andrej Karpathy — 2017

Karpathy's prescient argument that neural networks are not just a tool but a new programming paradigm — one where the programmer specifies desired behaviour, not explicit logic. Reads even better today.

paradigm shift neural networks programming prediction
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