Bringing AI's toughest questions into focus
The Curve
October 3-5, 2025 | Berkeley, CA
A conference for thinkers, builders, and leaders to tackle the AI big picture.
Purpose: The Curve creates a space for the people building and steering AI to share knowledge, explore disagreements, build bridges, and make progress towards solutions. No single group or discipline has all that it takes to ensure the best outcomes from transformative AI. We aim to help them work together.
Attendees: We bring in participants from frontier AI labs, startups, think tanks, government, academia, civil society, and media. This event is invite-only. Sign up here to be notified when our application opens in June.
Topics: Sessions will focus on questions like — How can we unlock the benefits of AI for scientific discovery? How might AI concentrate or distribute power? Does AI pose catastrophic or existential risks? How quickly will AI development progress? What impact will AI have on the job market and economic growth? What implications does AI have for national security and global balance of power? And of course: What should we do about it?
Speakers include:
Jack Clark
Head of Policy, Anthropic
Jason Kwon
CSO, OpenAI
Alondra Nelson
Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
Dylan Patel
CEO, SemiAnalysis
It felt like an event where history was happening.
— Kevin Roose
So many conferences are thoughtlessly designed or run. This was such a remarkable exception.
— Misha Glouberman
Super high quality attendees. It did not feel like an awkward Thanksgiving, but a good faith meeting of the minds.
— Nathan Labenz
Recent writing
Announcing the Golden Gate Institute for AI
A new think tank bridging disciplines, convening experts, and publishing accessible analysis
May 1, 2025 | Steve Newman
When Decades Become Days: Dissecting AI 2027
The Four Requirements for a Short AI Timeline
May 21, 2025 | Steve Newman
First, They Came for the Software Engineers
What 25 interviews tell us about AI's messy impact on tech work
April 29, 2025 | Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman
Announcing the Golden Gate Institute for AI
A new think tank bridging disciplines, convening experts, and publishing accessible analysis
May 1, 2025 | Steve Newman
When Decades Become Days: Dissecting AI 2027
The Four Requirements for a Short AI Timeline
May 21, 2025 | Steve Newman
First, They Came for the Software Engineers
What 25 interviews tell us about AI's messy impact on tech work
April 29, 2025 | Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman
Recent events
Media
Breaking points
Krystal and Saagar chat with Taren about Deepfakes, Meta's salaries for AI researchers, and whether the companies building AI take transformative AI seriously.
June 11, 2025
HardFork
Kevin and Casey recount their experience at The Curve 2024.
December 6, 2024
Cognitive Revolution
Steve joings Dean Ball, Nathan Calvin, and Nathan Labenz for a debate on California's SB1047.
May 4, 2024
About us
We are a think tank that supports leaders as they navigate this high-stakes period of rapid AI advancement by bridging disciplines, convening experts, and publishing accessible analysis of AI’s toughest questions. When conflicting perspectives emerge on crucial questions, we serve as the organization you can turn to for clarity and insight.
We focus on four broad topics:
- Timelines & Capabilities: How quickly will AI development advance?
- Economic Impacts: How quickly will AI be adopted, and what impact will this have on the economy? How can we ensure AI creates broad-based economic benefits?
- Democracy & Governance: How must democratic and other key institutions adapt to the challenges and opportunities that AI brings?
- Realizing Benefits: What can we do to unlock and facilitate adoption of beneficial uses of AI?
Our founding team consists of Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Steve Newman, and Rachel Weinberg.