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The AGI Reading List
The papers, posts and talks actually worth your time, in the order to read them, with a line on why each one matters.
What is in it
- The essential six. If you read only six things, read these.
- Foundations. How modern AI got here.
- Measuring progress. How we would know capability is becoming more general.
- Reasoning, agents and tools. From answering questions to doing work.
- Alignment, control and frontier safety. Getting capable systems to do what we intend, and the frameworks the labs actually use.
- The bigger AGI debate. Definitions, forecasts and the arguments underneath them.
- A reading route and living sources. A sensible order, stage by stage, and the measurements worth rechecking as they change.
Fifteen pages. Every item says what job it does, so you can skip the sections that are not yours.
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Last updated 07/09/26