Tag: SCSP
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Degrees of Separation: Why Your AI is Only as Smart as Your Curiosity
This session from the SCSP AI+Education conference offers a compelling look at how the bedrock of our labor and education systems is shifting from static credentials to dynamic capabilities. As a technologist, reading between the lines of the dialogue between LinkedIn’s Catlin O’Neill and Microsoft’s Allyson Knox reveals a clear mandate: the “Human-in-the-loop” is no…
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The Death of Seat Time: How AI is Reclaiming the Human Element in Education
At the recent SCSP AI+Education conference in Washington, DC, the air was thick with the usual policy jargon until Dr. Tasha Arnold, Head of Alpha Schools, took the stage. For a technologist, her message was a refreshing departure from the “AI will replace us” trope. Instead, she presented a vision where AI acts as the…
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States, AI, and Workforce Competitiveness: Rewiring the American Dream
The dawn of the AI era isn’t just a technological shift; it is a profound economic and social disruption that requires a fundamental “rewiring” of the American workforce. At the recent SCSP AI+Education conference in Washington, D.C., a compelling panel titled “States, AI, and Workforce Competitiveness” brought together former Governors Eric Holcomb (Indiana) and Gina…
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Fireside Chat: Frontiers & Foundations – A Conversation with Jack Clark, Co-founder of Anthropic
At the AI+ Science Summit in Washington, D.C., the Fireside Chat: Frontiers & Foundations brought together Jack Clark, co-founder and Head of Policy at Anthropic, and Ylli Bajraktari, CEO and President of the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), for a wide-ranging discussion on the state and future of large language models (LLMs) and AI’s transformative potential. From…
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Control, Context, and Code: Windsurf’s Quiet Revolution in Developer Tools
Anshul Ramachandran, founding team member at Windsurf Ever wonder what happens when the future of software meets the sharpest minds in AI—right as acquisition rumors swirl? At the AI+ Expo in Washington, DC, I sat down with Anshul Ramachandran, founding team member at Windsurf (formerly Codeium), just as whispers of an OpenAI buyout electrified the halls. Ramachandran’s resume reads…