Learn - People shaping how we think about AI

Not vendor profiles — these are the researchers, builders, and thinkers whose frameworks are actively changing how the field reasons about intelligence, safety, and what gets built next. For each we lay out their core bet, their key positions, and where they genuinely disagree with each other.

Tensions worth reading

The most productive disagreements in the field — where two smart people look at the same evidence and reach opposite conclusions.

Sam Altman
vs
Dario Amodei

Altman vs Amodei

What AGI safety actually requires

Yann LeCun
vs
Andrej Karpathy

LeCun vs Karpathy

Whether LLMs are on the right track

François Chollet
vs
Sam Altman

Chollet vs Altman

What the AGI bar should be

George Hotz
vs
Dario Amodei

Hotz vs Amodei

Open vs. closed models

Demis Hassabis
vs
George Hotz

Hassabis vs Hotz

What AI is for

Yann LeCun
vs
Sam Altman

LeCun vs Altman

Whether scaling will reach AGI