There’s a small group of people who are attuned to AI and its significance, and dedicate their work towards shaping its trajectory, be it by engineering frontier models, building products, writing legislation, researching safety measures, or posting about it on the internet.

They tend to agree about a lot: they think AI might be totally transformational. They think that historically technological progress and economic growth have been overwhelmingly positive. They have high hopes for the future, and they’re working hard to realize them.

But they’ve started a war on their corner of the internet about how exactly to proceed. What features make AI transformative, and how far off are they? Should AI be regulated? When? How? What are the national security implications of AI? How hard is it to make AI that’s cooperative and honest? What are the risks of having or not having open weight models? These are the questions that pull them apart.

At The Curve, we’ll try to make progress on these specific questions, and come out the other side more able to steer AI positively. Let’s kill the culture war, and repair the damage that the terms “e/acc” and “doomer” have done to the discourse. Let’s learn from disparate parts of the space — let’s get open source hackers talking with policy researchers, get safety-focused AI grantmakers talking with growth-focused AI VCs. Let’s work to understand each others views. Let’s search for common ground, and collaborate towards the future we all want.