Essays, reports, papers, and short-form literature

• “Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness” (Executive Order 14401)

• “The Adolescence of Technology” by Dario Amodei

• “AI 2027” by the AI Futures Project

• “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” by Richard Brautigan

• “Antiqua et Nova: Note on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence” by the Holy See

• “Cosmogenesis” by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

• “The Egg” by Andy Weir

• “Generative AI and WMD Nonproliferation: A Practical Primer for Policymakers and Diplomats” by Natasha E. Bajema

• “God’s Final Exam” by Brett Hurt

• “In the Beginning… Was the Command Line” by Neal Stephenson

• “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First” by OpenAI

• “Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence” by Anthropic

• “The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov

• "Machines of Loving Grace" by Dario Amodei —Brett’s Take

• “Magnifica Humanitas” by Pope Leo XIV

• “Manifesto on the Spirit of Planetary Consciousness” by Ervin Laszlo

• “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus

• “Rerum Novarum” by Pope Leo XIII

• “Russell-Einstein Manifesto” by Bertrand Russell

• “The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding” by Rick Rubin

• “The Whale’s Dream” by Brett Hurt

Speeches, interviews, and talks

• “Anthropic CEO warns that without guardrails, AI could be on dangerous path” (Dario Amodei on “60 Minutes”)

• “Brett Hurt presenting at the GOT gathering at MIT – April 2025”

• “Business is an ART - Keys To Success In Entrepreneurship w/Brett Hurt” (“Fulfillionaire” podcast)

• “Catalyst TALKS: COVID and the future with Brett Hurt” (“Catalyst TALKS podcast”)

• “How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe” (Demis Hassabis TED Talk)

• “How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent” (Peter Steinberger TED Talk)

• “How Love Must Conquer Fear in This Exponential Age” — Brett’s keynote at the Do More Good Movement’s “ROI of Why” conference

• “Quantum Computers Aren’t What You Think — They’re Cooler” (Hartmut Neven TED Talk)

• “The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed” (Bill Gross TED Talk)

• Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford commencement speech

• “The Tech Tipping Point: A Thoughtful Exchange with Brett Hurt and William ‘whurley’ Hurley” (“Austin Next” podcast)

• “What I Got Wrong About Changing the World” (Malala Yousafzai TED Talk)

• “What’s next for AI at DeepMind, Google’s artificial intelligence lab” (Demis Hassabis on “60 Minutes”)

• “Why AI Isn’t Going to Become Conscious” (Anil Seth TED Talk)

• “Will Superintelligent AI End the World?” (Eliezer Yudkowsky TED Talk)

• “The World’s First AI TED Talk”

Films and documentaries

• “2001: A Space Odyssey”

• “The AI Doc”

• “Ayahuasca Diaries”

• “Black Mirror”

• “The China Syndrome”

• “Fantastic Fungi”

• “From Shock to Awe”

• “The Game Changers”

• “How to Change Your Mind”

• “In Waves and War”

• "Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds"

• “INTUITION”

• “The Jetsons”

• “The Last Dive”

• “The Matrix”

• “Oppenheimer”

• “Psychedelics Revealed”

• “Ram Dass, Going Home”

• “The Social Dilemma”

• “Star Trek”

• “Star Wars”

• “The Terminator”

• "The Thinking Game"

• “A Trip to Infinity”

• “UNKNOWN: Cosmic Time Machine”

Podcasts

• “BG2 Pod”

• “Buddha at the Gas Pump”

• “Fulfillionaire”

• “Moonshots with Peter Diamandis”

• “On Being with Krista Tippett”

• "The Telepathy Tapes"

• “Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith”

• “Where Is My Mind?”

Media and organizations

• Americans for Ibogaine

• Cosmos Institute

• Do More Good Movement

• Fix The News

• Future of Life Institute

• The Nobelity Project

• The Progress Network

• Roots of Progress Institute

• Sacred Acoustics

• Whole Earth Catalog