After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment

Peli Grietzer on eudaimonic rationality and its implications for AI alignment.

Feb 19 • The Gradient and Peli Grietzer

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January 2026

2025 in AI, with Nathan Benaich

AI in 2025, going into 2026

Jan 22 • daniel bashir

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November 2025

Iason Gabriel: Value Alignment and the Ethics of Advanced AI Systems

How do we develop AI systems reflective of human values? How do we determine those values?

Nov 26, 2025 • daniel bashir

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June 2025

AGI is Not Multimodal

Benjamin Spiegel on what disembodied definitions of AGI miss

Jun 4, 2025 • Benjamin A. Spiegel and The Gradient

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December 2024

2024 in AI, with Nathan Benaich

all the (AI) news that's fit to print (record).

Dec 26, 2024 • daniel bashir

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Philip Goff: Panpsychism as a Theory of Consciousness

On phenomenal transparency, physicalism vs. anti-physicalism, hybrid cosmopsychism and its assumptions

Dec 12, 2024 • daniel bashir

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🔮 From ChatGPT to a billion agents

2025 will be the year of agents

Published on Exponential View • Dec 6, 2024

November 2024

Some Changes at The Gradient

How we're scaling back a bit to keep things sustainable

Nov 21, 2024 • daniel bashir, Hugh Zhang, and Andrey Kurenkov

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Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research

Henry Kvinge asks "What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning?"

Nov 16, 2024 • The Gradient and Cole Frank

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October 2024

Jacob Andreas: Language, Grounding, and World Models

On grounding, language and the world, agents, and world models.

Oct 10, 2024 • daniel bashir

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September 2024

Evan Ratliff: Our Future with Voice Agents

On things that are not what they seem; and reflections on the Longform Podcast.

Sep 26, 2024 • daniel bashir

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Meredith Ringel Morris: Generative AI's HCI Moment

On distinctions between fields, technological determinism, disability and AI, and why generative AI research needs more humanism.

Sep 12, 2024 • daniel bashir

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