AI WRITERS

WRITERS

• Anil SethControlled hallucination, predictive processing, biological naturalism — and the argument that silicon may not get consciousness for free.
• Ben ThompsonApple and Microsoft strategy → Stratechery → Aggregation Theory: the business-model map for the AI era.
• Benedict EvansMobile research, a16z, a giant newsletter — and a long-running attempt to explain the next platform shift before everyone else does.
• Cade MetzEnterprise tech → Wired infrastructure → The New York Times → Genius Makers: a career following AI into the mainstream.
• Daniel DennettConsciousness, evolution, intentionality: a lifetime spent asking how minds can emerge from machinery.
• David ChalmersThe hard problem of consciousness followed him straight into the LLM era.
• Dwarkesh PatelCold-emailed guests before the podcast had a name, lived on a $10,000 listener grant, nearly quit — then AI's bosses started showing up.
• Dylan PatelSemiAnalysis turns GPUs, supply chains, and data centers into the physical map underneath the AI boom.
• Eliezer YudkowskyLessWrong, MIRI, alignment, and two decades of insisting the machine might kill everybody.
• Ethan MollickOne Useful Thing, classroom experiments, and a professor treating every new model like office equipment that needs testing.
• Jack ClarkAI reporter → Import AI → Anthropic co-founder: from chronicling frontier models to helping govern one.
• Jerry KaplanEarly commercial AI, a tablet company that lost, internet auctions, labor warnings — and a veteran founder still arguing with doomers.
• John SearleA room that can answer perfect Chinese without understanding a word. Every fluent chatbot walks straight into the argument.
• Karen HaoSilicon Valley engineer → AI reporter → OpenAI chronicler → author of Empire of AI.
• Nick BostromSuperintelligence took machine doom from thought experiment to respectable academic subject.
• Ray KurzweilReading machines, synthesizers, Google, the Singularity — six decades of saying the machines are coming fast.
• Robert WrightEvolution, non-zero-sum history, Buddhism — and now AI as a civilizational test.
• Simon WillisonDjango, Datasette, two decades of blogging, and a habit of making new models prove what they can actually do in public.
• Stuart RussellWrote the standard AI textbook, then spent years arguing the textbook's machines need a better control problem.
• swyx (Shawn Wang)Learn in Public, Latent Space, and a successful campaign to make AI Engineer an actual job title.
• Yuval Noah HarariSapiens, information networks, and the question of what happens when machines join the storytellers.