Tao Burga
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Technology Fellow @IFP | AI+science, compute policy, and def/acc R&D. | Prev. @NYUniversity researcher, @iapsAI Fellow, @BrownUniversity.
Washington, DC
Joined October 2015
🚀The Launch Sequence book debut is in 11 days! Start the countdown: every day until then, I’ll post at least one short summary on each of the ideas in the book. Then we’ll start shipping the books to Congress. More details in-thread (1/3).
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How can we secure open-source code against memory safety exploits? @herbiebradley and @girishsastry propose using AI to automatically translate 100 million lines of critical code from C/C++ into memory-safe Rust, eliminating entire classes of vulnerabilities before 2030. The
🚀The Launch Sequence book debut is in 11 days! Start the countdown: every day until then, I’ll post at least one short summary on each of the ideas in the book. Then we’ll start shipping the books to Congress. More details in-thread (1/3).
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How can we automate scientific replications to get better, faster science? Abel Brodeur and Bruno Barbarioli from @I4Replication propose building AI-powered infrastructure that automatically reproduces computational findings when scientific papers are submitted to journals,
🚀The Launch Sequence book debut is in 11 days! Start the countdown: every day until then, I’ll post at least one short summary on each of the ideas in the book. Then we’ll start shipping the books to Congress. More details in-thread (1/3).
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Today, we are launching the most rigorous ongoing source of expert forecasts on the future of AI: the Longitudinal Expert AI Panel (LEAP). We’ve assembled a panel of 339 top experts across computer science, AI industry, economics, and AI policy. Roughly every month—for the next
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No Blackwells for Beijing New from me in @amconmag: https://t.co/DSlgyavKvq
theamericanconservative.com
The White House must continue to hold the line on not handing over American technical advantages to China.
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Excited for the inaugural CHIPS leadership team to start Factory Settings, an IFP Project on lessons learned from CHIPS Act implementation.
In recent decades, only a handful of government interventions have been widely regarded as successes. Operation Warp Speed is one of them. So is the CHIPS Act, the $39 billion program that catalyzed a massive investment boom in manufacturing semiconductors on American soil.
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A "lessons learned" series on the CHIPS program, by the inaugural CHIPS program leadership 👀
In recent decades, only a handful of government interventions have been widely regarded as successes. Operation Warp Speed is one of them. So is the CHIPS Act, the $39 billion program that catalyzed a massive investment boom in manufacturing semiconductors on American soil.
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In recent decades, only a handful of government interventions have been widely regarded as successes. Operation Warp Speed is one of them. So is the CHIPS Act, the $39 billion program that catalyzed a massive investment boom in manufacturing semiconductors on American soil.
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It's a very good piece
No Blackwells for Beijing New from me in @amconmag: https://t.co/DSlgyavKvq
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How can we give defenders of critical infrastructure an advantage over attackers? @Miles_Brundage proposes Operation Patchlight: a national effort to use each jump in frontier AI capabilities to find and patch critical open-source code vulnerabilities before these AI
🚀The Launch Sequence book debut is in 11 days! Start the countdown: every day until then, I’ll post at least one short summary on each of the ideas in the book. Then we’ll start shipping the books to Congress. More details in-thread (1/3).
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How can we make science funding work for large-scale AI projects? @calebwatney proposes X-Labs: 25 independent research institutions funded at $10–50M/year to support the infrastructure-heavy, team-based work that AI-driven science requires. Current science funding mechanisms
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This seems like a good idea
How can we detect the next pandemic before it spreads? @Simon__Grimm explains how AI and metagenomic sequencing can transform early pathogen detection in the US, catching novel pathogens that current methods would miss entirely. AI is getting good at virology, and we should use
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Today, we’re announcing Kosmos, our newest AI Scientist, available to use now. Users estimate Kosmos does 6 months of work in a single day. One run can read 1,500 papers and write 42,000 lines of code. At least 79% of its findings are reproducible. Kosmos has made 7 discoveries
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Spread the word:
🚨 NEW ROLE AT @IFP 🚨 We're hiring a Director of Operations to improve and oversee the internal systems that power IFP’s work — from finance and compliance to HR and organizational planning. This role will report to me & @calebwatney and will be the senior-most operations role
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🚨 NEW ROLE AT @IFP 🚨 We're hiring a Director of Operations to improve and oversee the internal systems that power IFP’s work — from finance and compliance to HR and organizational planning. This role will report to me & @calebwatney and will be the senior-most operations role
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Announcing our Frontier Data Centers Hub! The world is about to see multiple 1 GW+ AI data centers. We mapped their construction using satellite imagery, permits & public sources — releasing everything for free, including commissioned satellite images. Highlights in thread!
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Wake up sheeple! The so-called "Foundation for American Innovation" (@joinfai) is an astroturf front group for Elon Musk/Peter Thiel/Charles Koch/Dustin Moskovitz/U.S. tech industry/Project 2025 and their clandestine shared political agenda.
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How can we detect the next pandemic before it spreads? @Simon__Grimm explains how AI and metagenomic sequencing can transform early pathogen detection in the US, catching novel pathogens that current methods would miss entirely. AI is getting good at virology, and we should use
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Nvidia's advanced Blackwell chip for artificial intelligence would not be available to ‘other people,’ US President Trump said
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Trump said only U.S. customers should have access to the top-end Blackwell chips offered by Nvidia, the world's most valuable company by market capitalization.
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