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AI Safety Fact vs. Fiction | YC Paper Club

AI safety requires shifting from speculative hysteria toward rigorous engineering and formal verification. Rather than focusing on existential threats, safety efforts should prioritize concrete defenses, such as formally verifying code to eliminate vulnerabilities like buffer overflows. Automated reasoning tools, such ...

Demis Hassabis: Put your life force into a problem that matters

Tackling deep, complex problems is often no more difficult than pursuing superficial ones, yet it offers a more meaningful application of limited time and energy. For those embarking on "deep tech" journeys, which typically span a decade, strategic planning must account for the emergence of Artificial General Intellige...

Alexandr Wang on what matters in an age of abundant intelligence

What surprised PG about AI

How Jeetu Patel Runs Cisco Like the World’s Largest Startup

A camera that can see through walls

What If We Stopped Using GPUs? | YC Paper Club

Robotic factories that build robots

New LLMs Are Unlocking Robot-Use Agents

Rocket cargo delivery anywhere on Earth in minutes

Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond

Drone swarm defense

Startups Are Moving From Bits to Atoms

Earendil Robotics: Drone swarm defense

How To Get Better At Outbound Sales

Mass Magnetics: USA-made magnetics for robotics and defense

Happy Alumni Demo Day!

Introducing Early Access: An Invite only program for the Enterprise

Self-Improving Harnesses, Local Personal AI And YC's Agent For Work | YC Paper Club

Paul Graham on what motivates founders