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Zico Kolter: Current AI trajectory will yield capable systems without breakthroughs

“I think the current trajectory we're on is going to get us, even if there were no more breakthroughs, I think, you know, with the minor additions that we are doing right now, we will get to incredibly capable systems, even if we were to freeze things right now…”

Zico Kolter May 7, 2026 ▶ 1:06:34 OpenAI Board Member Zico Kolter: Modern AI Is Just 200 Lines of Code

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Kolter: AI agents might turn mechanistic interpretability into a science

“I think that we actually might finally be able to make more what I would consider a science of this through essentially leveraging mass research by agents deployed for this problem.”

Zico Kolter May 7, 2026 ▶ 1:02:13 OpenAI Board Member Zico Kolter: Modern AI Is Just 200 Lines of Code

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Kolter: Universities will drive AI breakthroughs in math and science

“There's going to be a whole lot of breakthroughs happening with AI enablement in math and basic science, those kinds of things. Universities, I think will play a foundational role in shaping that future.”

Zico Kolter May 7, 2026 ▶ 38:27 OpenAI Board Member Zico Kolter: Modern AI Is Just 200 Lines of Code

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