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AI x Truth-Seeking Grant Winners: Our Second Cohort (+ new additional grantees)
Meet 24 more builders advancing open inquiry and human flourishing in AI
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A World Unobserved
Humans have always generated knowledge and judged it. That's changing fast.
Dec 12
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Brendan McCord
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What Got Lost in the Optimization
Look closer. Does it get better or worse?
Dec 5
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Alex Komoroske
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What Will You Build For: Rune Kvist
Anthropic's first commercial hire now wants to underwrite superintelligence.
Dec 2
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November 2025
Philosophical Field Notes: 11 Reflections on AI, Technology, and Ourselves
Reid Hoffman, Tyler Cowen, Joe Lonsdale, Nick Bostrom and others get philosophical
Nov 28
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A Return to Wholeness
AI forces a return to “natural philosophy,” just as science once needed to leave it
Nov 21
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What You Want To Want
Harry Frankfurt, technology, and "addiction"
Nov 14
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Harry Law
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Frankenstein: A Child Without a Childhood
AI and the fantasy of the sovereign child
Nov 7
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Brendan McCord
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October 2025
AI and the Republic of Science
AI promises to end scientific stagnation. But will it solve the right problem?
Oct 31
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Jason Zhao
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Technocalvinism
Reject claims of total technological determinism. Differential tech development is achievable.
Oct 28
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Luke Drago
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Intelligence Environments
The New Site of Freedom and Control, Virtue and Vice
Oct 24
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Making and Breaking Human Kinds
Looping effects in the agent economy
Oct 17
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Harry Law
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