Blog prize for big questions about AI - by Dwarkesh Patel

The not-so-secret point of this whole contest is so that I can hire a researcher

Blog Blog prize for the big questions about AI The not-so-secret point of this whole contest is so that I can hire a research collaborator Dwarkesh Patel Apr 24, 2026 319 30 28 Share There has never been a time where excellent intellectual output on the right question has been more valuable or more urgent. Compelling answers can inform the most important economic and foreign policy decisions that will ever be made, the deployment of (at least) hundreds of billions of philanthropic dollars, and the training and governance of superintelligences. I’m announcing a $20,000 blog prize in order to fi

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