🔮 Exponential View #569: When the future is uncertain, what do you teach?On education & AI, Mythos, GLP-1s++
Hi all, Happy Sunday. Let’s zoom out for a moment and look at what stayed with me and our team this week. More than a mythAnthropic teased Mythos Preview this week and assembled a coalition to think through what the model might mean for digital infrastructure if placed in the wrong hands. It’s a model preview with an institution gathering around it. My initial take on Mythos, in short:
You can read the full analysis here. Mythos raises the “Is this AGI?” question again. It’s not a useful question to ask. I made the case before that
Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner made the case too this week. She’s right when she says: “[f]or people who think the world is going to be radically transformed by advanced AI, I think it’s helpful to talk less about either AGI or superintelligence, and instead describe vivid, concrete milestones that you think will happen soon due to increasingly capable AI.” Highly recommend reading Helen’s essay. Wired for GLP-1sScientists have found genetic evidence that helps explain one of the most striking features of GLP-1 drugs: why two people can take the same medicine and have very different experiences. Some lose far more weight than others, some are hit by nausea, while others tolerate the drugs with ease. This work gets us a step closer to precise obesity treatment – perhaps guided by a genetic test before a prescription is written. As a class of medicines, GLP‑1s target a condition that affects more than 1 billion people worldwide, even before you count diabetes and other metabolic disorders. They could reshape our societies. The catch has been how unevenly they work. This new research could be one of the keys to unlocking the full potential of GLP-1s. A degree of human
In September 2025, I wrote about the great value inversion and the future of education, in particular:
The reality is, in the next decade or two, we will have to reimagine education completely. It may help to look back to 1809 Prussia, a country in free fall and forced to reform. Then, the diplomat Wilhelm von Humboldt was asked to redesign education. Instead of training officers and engineers, he argued for Bildung, the free development of a whole human being:
A nice Sunday read by Brendan McCord. What I’m reading
I had the opportunity to read Sebastian Mallaby’s book on Demis Hassabis and DeepMind before it came out. I met Demis several times and in 2020, when we recorded this podcast conversation via Zoom. ... Subscribe to Exponential View to unlock the rest.Become a paying subscriber of Exponential View to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. A subscription gets you:
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