The clearinghouse

The best navigable map of the argument

Not a catalogue of scary AI stories, and not a reading list for optimists. Both cases are given the same seriousness, because a person deciding what to think needs the strongest version of each.


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Separates predictive AI, which mostly does not work as advertised, from generative AI, which works differently than advertised.

Why read it. The best available inoculation against capability claims in press releases.

Technology raises general prosperity only when institutions force it to. Otherwise the gains concentrate.

Why read it. Reframes the AI question from 'how capable' to 'who decides', with a thousand years of evidence.

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Argues containment of AI and synthetic biology is the defining problem, and that it may not be achievable.

Why read it. A frontier-lab leader making the containment argument from inside the industry.

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