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    Exa CEO Seeks Visual Depictions of Happy Post-AGI Future

    Will Bryk urges artists to create realistic images of optimistic AI futures.

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    Will Bryk, co-founder and CEO of Exa, posted a call for filmmakers and artists to produce visual depictions of a happy post-AGI world. He stated there are enough essays already and asked for realist scenes without drama or romance. Beff Jezos replied that the world needs more techno-optimistic art to hyperstition optimistic outcomes. Sholto Douglas, a research engineer at Anthropic, agreed it may be the highest-leverage time ever to be an artist. The posts appear on X and reference Bryk's original status.

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    @WilliamBrykCalling all filmmakers/artists/idealists, if you want a say in the future, then step up right now. There is historic alpha in being the first person to depict an AI future that's exciting. We have enough essays, we need a visual depiction of a post-AGI world that's happy. No drama needed, no romance, just some realistic future to look forward to. POV from a jetpack, a day in the life of 2060, anything. This is the easiest / most impactful work someone could be doing right now.
    @_sholtodouglasWill is right. It might just be the highest leverage time ever to be an artist.
    @samsja19imo need to be careful with this framing, there's no such thing as arbitrage / a high-leverage move in art. changing what you say to fill a hole in the market is the opposite of art that said, agree we could use more positive artistic representations of AI and progress, but more important to foster a place where such artists would emerge rather than forcing it
    @evanjconradokay, i'll give it a shot. earlier this month, we launched an autoresearch product called "givemeanode". you plug it into claude, and then claude gets *gasp* access to an AI Data Center itself! anyway, one of the first things i did with it was ask fable, the wonderful frontier model from anthropic, to go look at some cancer. if you're not familiar, sid got cancer awhile ago, was told there were no more options, and because sid is sid, he decided that there were in fact options. he hired a team of doctors and they engineered their own treatment program. along the way, he published incredible data on the internet that you can go look at. or you can have fable look at it. So I told fable + givemeanode to go download Sid Sijbrandij's (the gitlab co-founder) cancer data off the internet, do a deep analysis on it, research anything it needed, and use any interesting model it could off huggingface. i didn't say "please teach me". I didn't go to my terminal and download the dataset. I just said the words "go do this". I also told it to be a good scientist, make predictions, and try to disprove them. It pretty quickly found out that, at least in April 2025, there's still residual osteosarcoma. he had cancer at the time, immune system probably cleaned the rest up. the malignant cells fell 30-fold over time and the immune system is engaged in cleaning it up. fable thinks it's engaged because it saw phenotype markers on tumour-infiltrating CD8 T cells: CD39-positive 58%, CD103-positive 64%, FOXP3-positive 0.8%. fhese come from single-cell RNA expression. It saw clonal expansion: four T-cell clonotypes at 148, 133, 129 and 113 cells in the april 2025 sample. it saw blood repertoire dynamics: 11,593 went to 75,683 distinct clones, with tumour-associated clones down 75% by the last draw. sometimes tumors learn to hide from the immune system. sids doesn't appear to be. fable thinks this is the case because B2M is intact, there's no damaging antigen-presentation variant, and no HLA LOH. however, the remaining cells are *maybe* not dormant, of the residual malignant cells, 30.3% were positive for MKI67, a standard marker of active cell division (95% confidence interval 16.8% to 47.1%). does this mean anything? no idea. was it just repeating research already in there? probably. is it correct? who knows, i'm not a doctor. but SEEING it do this was definitely a "oh, that's what we're doing here" moment. Here, in this little setup, you can see the future. the cost of doing very complex, previously very expensive things, is just going down. When that happens, it means the average person is going to be able to do heroic, incredible things. sid can citizen science his way to curing himself, because he's a billionaire! but here, in the future that we can see the glimpses of, perhaps one need not be a billionaire to be able to have grit, ambition, and hope in the face of a doctor who has told you there are no more options. or even better, perhaps we get every doctor a full team of medical researchers behind them! it is very clear, to many of us in san francisco, that the world in which each person has an army of angels rooting for your success, in which the average person can simply do 100x more, in which science is in autoresearch mode, in which prices come down and tasks become easier, THAT world is not only possible, but here today, under cover in the san francisco fog.
    @beffjezosThe world needs more techno-optimistic art. The fate of the future depends on it. We can hyperstition the optimistic outcomes if we vividly envision them.
    @AndercotIF anyone is interested in helping build the Ministry of Propaganda for the genuine Science Fiction Future DM me After growing @deeptechweek to 55k people and 8 cities, this is phase two Science Fiction as a Service (artists wanted)
    @abhshkdzRT @evanjconrad: okay, i'll give it a shot. earlier this month, we launched an autoresearch product called "givemeanode". you plug it into…

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    @WilliamBrykCalling all filmmakers/artists/idealists, if you want a say in the future, then step up right now. There is historic alpha in being the first person to depict an AI future that's exciting. We have enough essays, we need a visual depiction of a post-AGI world that's happy. No drama needed, no romance, just some realistic future to look forward to. POV from a jetpack, a day in the life of 2060, anything. This is the easiest / most impactful work someone could be doing right now.
    @_sholtodouglasWill is right. It might just be the highest leverage time ever to be an artist.
    @samsja19imo need to be careful with this framing, there's no such thing as arbitrage / a high-leverage move in art. changing what you say to fill a hole in the market is the opposite of art that said, agree we could use more positive artistic representations of AI and progress, but more important to foster a place where such artists would emerge rather than forcing it
    @evanjconradokay, i'll give it a shot. earlier this month, we launched an autoresearch product called "givemeanode". you plug it into claude, and then claude gets *gasp* access to an AI Data Center itself! anyway, one of the first things i did with it was ask fable, the wonderful frontier model from anthropic, to go look at some cancer. if you're not familiar, sid got cancer awhile ago, was told there were no more options, and because sid is sid, he decided that there were in fact options. he hired a team of doctors and they engineered their own treatment program. along the way, he published incredible data on the internet that you can go look at. or you can have fable look at it. So I told fable + givemeanode to go download Sid Sijbrandij's (the gitlab co-founder) cancer data off the internet, do a deep analysis on it, research anything it needed, and use any interesting model it could off huggingface. i didn't say "please teach me". I didn't go to my terminal and download the dataset. I just said the words "go do this". I also told it to be a good scientist, make predictions, and try to disprove them. It pretty quickly found out that, at least in April 2025, there's still residual osteosarcoma. he had cancer at the time, immune system probably cleaned the rest up. the malignant cells fell 30-fold over time and the immune system is engaged in cleaning it up. fable thinks it's engaged because it saw phenotype markers on tumour-infiltrating CD8 T cells: CD39-positive 58%, CD103-positive 64%, FOXP3-positive 0.8%. fhese come from single-cell RNA expression. It saw clonal expansion: four T-cell clonotypes at 148, 133, 129 and 113 cells in the april 2025 sample. it saw blood repertoire dynamics: 11,593 went to 75,683 distinct clones, with tumour-associated clones down 75% by the last draw. sometimes tumors learn to hide from the immune system. sids doesn't appear to be. fable thinks this is the case because B2M is intact, there's no damaging antigen-presentation variant, and no HLA LOH. however, the remaining cells are *maybe* not dormant, of the residual malignant cells, 30.3% were positive for MKI67, a standard marker of active cell division (95% confidence interval 16.8% to 47.1%). does this mean anything? no idea. was it just repeating research already in there? probably. is it correct? who knows, i'm not a doctor. but SEEING it do this was definitely a "oh, that's what we're doing here" moment. Here, in this little setup, you can see the future. the cost of doing very complex, previously very expensive things, is just going down. When that happens, it means the average person is going to be able to do heroic, incredible things. sid can citizen science his way to curing himself, because he's a billionaire! but here, in the future that we can see the glimpses of, perhaps one need not be a billionaire to be able to have grit, ambition, and hope in the face of a doctor who has told you there are no more options. or even better, perhaps we get every doctor a full team of medical researchers behind them! it is very clear, to many of us in san francisco, that the world in which each person has an army of angels rooting for your success, in which the average person can simply do 100x more, in which science is in autoresearch mode, in which prices come down and tasks become easier, THAT world is not only possible, but here today, under cover in the san francisco fog.
    @beffjezosThe world needs more techno-optimistic art. The fate of the future depends on it. We can hyperstition the optimistic outcomes if we vividly envision them.
    @AndercotIF anyone is interested in helping build the Ministry of Propaganda for the genuine Science Fiction Future DM me After growing @deeptechweek to 55k people and 8 cities, this is phase two Science Fiction as a Service (artists wanted)
    @abhshkdzRT @evanjconrad: okay, i'll give it a shot. earlier this month, we launched an autoresearch product called "givemeanode". you plug it into…