Gwern Branwen
Researcher, writer, and early experimenter with long-form serious blogging at gwern.net — covering rationalist psychology, darknet markets, machine learning, and everything in between. A model for rigour and intellectual honesty on the open web.
Melanie Mitchell
Author of Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans.
AI Now Institute
Critical research on the social implications of AI. Power, bias, and accountability.
Kaggle
The world's largest community of machine-learning practitioners. Runs the canonical ML competitions where the line between hobbyist and world-class is decided by a leaderboard, not a CV. Hosts hundreds of thousands of public datasets and notebooks — the closest thing the field has to a shared workshop. Free tier includes GPU/TPU compute. Where a generation of ML engineers learned the craft in public. Owned by Google since 2017 but the community culture predates the acquisition by a decade.
IronClaw (NearAI)
Open-source personal AI agent — Rust, security-first, defense-in-depth. A re-implementation of OpenClaw rewritten for privacy: WASM sandbox for untrusted tools, capability-based permissions, endpoint allow-lists, credential injection at the host boundary so secrets never touch tool code, leak detection on requests and responses, and prompt-injection detection layered on top. All data stays local (Postgres + pgvector), no telemetry. Multi-channel: REPL, HTTP, Telegram, Slack, web gateway. Apache/MIT. ~8.5k stars. Maintained by Near AI.
Gwern.net
Deep, rigorous long-form research on AI, drugs, statistics, and more. One of the internet's best independent researchers.
Bittensor
Decentralized network of machine intelligence — open "subnets" compete to produce the best AI outputs (models, data, compute, knowledge) and earn TAO through a peer-to-peer incentive mechanism. The canonical bet on open-source AI.
AI Agent Law
The legal frontier opening as autonomous agents start to act — contracts…
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Augmented and virtual reality — technologies blending the digital and ph…
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Using biology as technology — engineering living systems to solve human…
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Distributed ledger technology — trustless systems for recording transact…
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The protection of digital systems, data, and people — increasingly criti…
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AI infrastructure owned by networks, not corporations — protocols that c…
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Peer-to-peer architectures that remove single points of control — the in…
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Tools that keep you the owner of your data, your money, and your attenti…
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Computing that harnesses quantum mechanical phenomena — with the potenti…
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The design and engineering of autonomous machines — from industrial robo…
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A vision of a decentralised web owned by users rather than corporations…
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