The Frontier
The Frontier
The New Intelligence State with Samo Burja
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The New Intelligence State with Samo Burja

The anthropology of frontier labs, the point at which “startup” becomes a misnomer, and the future status of wordcels in the AI space

Tim Hwang and Rachel Reses are joined by FAI Non-Resident Senior Fellow and Bismarck Analysis president and founder Samo Burja to dissect the frontier lab as an institution. We cover: whether frontier labs are fundamentally different from a typical corporation, why American labs haven’t adopted a Space Race-era ethos centered on beating our adversaries, what it would mean for AI to become a utility, and whether software engineers are overidentifying as shape rotators.

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