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Aiden Smith

Co-founder, Flapping Airplanes. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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A 2025 Thiel Fellow and former Neuralink machine learning engineer, Aidan Smith worked on brain-computer interfaces and human clinical trials before founding Interfaces. He subsequently co-founded Flapping Airplanes, an AI research lab focused on data-efficient model training.

What they said2 Shows1

Everything Aiden Smith said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

TBPN Insight

Contextual Awareness Resolves Noisy Non-Invasive Neural Speech Signals

“There's a really good story to be told about kind of doing this for speech and getting really terrible speech. I have no illusions as a neurotechnologist that you will get really terrible speech out of this. But the key thing is that this does not matter becau…”

Aiden Smith May 28, 2025 ▶ 1:50:30 We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts

TBPN Opinion

Voice Interfaces Fail for Ambient AI Due to Social Awkwardness

“I actually don't like voice as a medium that much for most things. If it actually wants to integrate into your life effortlessly, I don't want to be in the middle of conversation with you and be like, what's the guy on the left's name. It's super awkward. It's…”

Aiden Smith May 28, 2025 ▶ 1:48:38 We Interviewed the New Thiel Fellow Dropouts

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Aiden's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
TBPNLEDGER	Co-founder, Flapping Airplanes	1	2	—	full record on TBPN →