The discourse · 14 July 2026
“So like Anthropic and OpenAI in particular are trying to automate themselves. Like they're trying to make it the case that um they don't really need human employees anymore.”
Dario Amodei puts the probability of AI causing human extinction at 70%.
Dario Amodei on OpenAI's early motivation: fear that Demis Hassabis would seize control with AGI.
Dario Amodei says AI uncertainty led him to stop planning for more children.
Nathaniel Whittemore on how swapping a hidden internal concept changes a model's output answer.
Dan Held on Bitcoin resisting institutional capture.
Jason Calacanis on the cost-efficiency of his viral tweet experiment.
Alistair Pullen on agent memory implementations being universally hacky, including his own company's.
Avishai Abrahami on using LLMs for medical research.
Dan Held on Bitcoin's digital gold identity being culturally constructed rather than designed.
Avishai Abrahami on the ceiling of vibe coding against established platforms.
Dambisa Moyo frames the current AI and energy transition moment as the first economic super cycle in 40 years.