Dwarkesh Patel at his own blog:
Two months ago, I posted some big questions about AI. We ended up getting over 600 essays submitted for this contest. Below is a bit of information of the 3 winners, followed by all 3 full essays. Thanks to everyone who participated!
First Place – Jassi Pannu
Jassi Pannu is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University, where she focuses on biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. She serves on the board of Blueprint Biosecurity.
Jassi answered the question about what the OpenAI Foundation should do. She persuasively argues that we can live in a post-disease world, and gave very concrete and well thought out ideas about how to dedicate 10s of billions of dollars to that project.
Second Place – Ege Erdil
Ege Erdil is a co-founder of Mechanize, a startup building environments and evals for frontier coding agents. He was previously a researcher at Epoch AI.
Ege answered the question about what countries outside the AI supply chain should do to avoid increase their odds of not being totally sidestepped by transformative growth.
More here.
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