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Date	Quote	Context	Source
Sep 17, 2026	Cognitive offloading is a strategic delegation that costs nothing. Cognitive surrender is something different; an uncritical abdication of reasoning itself. And there is something about AI, about its allure and potency, that could make surrender far more widespread.Azeem AzharSep 17, 2026· Post	PostI do not want your brains to rot	Source
Sep 17, 2026	Now advanced AI encourages us to delegate more and more, simpler and simpler tasks, weakening the practices that maintain our cognitive capacities.Azeem AzharSep 17, 2026· Post	PostI do not want your brains to rot	Source
August 2026	And even if you have AIs writing all your code for you, you're still in the position of an engineering manager, and good engineering managers should be able to do the work of those working for them.Paul GrahamAugust 2026· Essay	EssayHow Universities Should Prepare Founders	Source
Jul 11, 2026	In the case of AI, the connection of AI to freedom of expression is unshakable and irrefutable.Steven SinofskyJul 11, 2026· Essay	EssayBanning AI in Law School: We've Seen This Before	Source
Jun 18, 2026	More specifically, I believe it will become a norm, in the way that smartphones have become a norm, for billions of people worldwide to have a designated AI health advisor, an AI legal advisor, and a general-purpose AI tutor that they regularly consult with as they navigate their lives.Reid HoffmanJun 18, 2026· Essay	EssayWhat if everyone could afford an expert?	Source
Oct 17, 2025	In my mind, education is the very difficult technical process of building ramps to knowledge.Andrej KarpathyOct 17, 2025· Interview	InterviewDwarkesh Podcast: AGI is still a decade away	Source
Sep 23, 2025	Maybe with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to cure cancer. Or with 10 gigawatts of compute, AI can figure out how to provide customized tutoring to every student on earth.Sam AltmanSep 23, 2025· Post	PostAbundant Intelligence	Source
Sep 22, 2025	Once we put a personalized AI tutor on every topic at everyone’s fingertips, AI will close the gap between people who have the resources to learn and people who have historically been left behind.Fidji SimoSep 22, 2025· Post	PostAI as the greatest source of empowerment for all	Source
Jun 11, 2025	With the right investment and the right tools, we will see more AI innovation in this next generation than all previous generations combined.Ali GhodsiJun 11, 2025· Statement	StatementDatabricks launches Free Edition (Databricks press release)	Source
May 30, 2025	Writing and learning with AI is the typewriter, the word processor, the encyclopedia, and the almanac rolled into one. Seeing it as something scarier than that is just fear of new tools and new paradigms.Steven SinofskyMay 30, 2025· Essay	EssayFrom Typewriters to Transformers: AI is Just the Next Tools Abstraction	Source
Jan 3, 2025	A key opportunity for most people will be to develop an AI fluency that will enable them to use AI in their jobs, much as they use laptops, smartphones, software applications, and the internet today.Brad SmithJan 3, 2025· Post	PostThe Golden Opportunity for American AI	Source
October 2024	AI has blown this world open. Almost all pressure to write has dissipated. You can have AI do it for you, both in school and at work.Paul GrahamOctober 2024· Essay	EssayWrites and Write-Nots	Source
October 2024	I'm usually reluctant to make predictions about technology, but I feel fairly confident about this one: in a couple decades there won't be many people who can write.Paul GrahamOctober 2024· Essay	EssayWrites and Write-Nots	Source
October 2024	It will be the same with writing. There will still be smart people, but only those who choose to be.Paul GrahamOctober 2024· Essay	EssayWrites and Write-Nots	Source
October 2024	So a world divided into writes and write-nots is more dangerous than it sounds. It will be a world of thinks and think-nots.Paul GrahamOctober 2024· Essay	EssayWrites and Write-Nots	Source
Sep 20, 2024	AI can provide near free AI tutors to every child on the planet and near free AI physician expertise to everyone on the planet.Vinod KhoslaSep 20, 2024· Essay	EssayAI: Dystopia or Utopia?	Source
Jun 30, 2023	In the near future, nobody will recommend starting in AI Engineering by reading Attention is All You Need, just like you do not start driving by reading the schematics for the Ford Model T.Shawn Wang (swyx)Jun 30, 2023· Essay	EssayThe Rise of the AI Engineer	Source
Jun 6, 2023	In our new era of AI: Every child will have an AI tutor that is infinitely patient, infinitely compassionate, infinitely knowledgeable, infinitely helpful. The AI tutor will be by each child’s side every step of their development, helping them maximize their potential with the machine version of infinite love.Marc AndreessenJun 6, 2023· Essay	EssayWhy AI Will Save The World	Source

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