Chappy Asel I taught myself to code at 12, got completely hooked, and spent much of my teens cranking out iOS apps. With a lot of tinkering and some incredible luck, one became the #1 homework planner in the world and was acquired during college. That led to my dream job at Apple, first in AI/ML R&D and then on the teams building Vision Pro and the earliest prototypes of what became Apple Intelligence. For a while, it felt like the center of the universe.At the same time, a question from my senior year of college was becoming an obsession. My college paper on GPTs and the technological singularity convinced me that the widening gap between the pace of technology and society's capacity to adapt would be the defining challenge of my lifetime. If ASI could be humanity's final invention, I wanted to dedicate my career to helping us build it wisely and turn its power into broadly shared human flourishing.When ChatGPT launched, it felt like the timeline had collapsed overnight. I started inviting friends into my living room each week, and that gathering became The AI Collective. Through the community, I met two brilliant Stanford PhDs and left Apple to co-found
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