The theme of the Artificiality Summit 2026 is Unknowing. We start with five speakers—David Wolpert, Caleb Scharf, Wakanyi Macharia-Hoffman, Gašper Beguš, and Nina Beguš—whose work converges on a single finding: the uncertainty surrounding AI is permanent, not a phase.
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For the past year, we’ve lived in a world overwhelmed by news of large AI, especially large language models like GPT, the model behind OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The general genius of large language models, however, comes at a cost—and that cost may not be worth it in plenty of use cases.
We don’t yet know what OpenAI will look like after the dust settles. But here are our main takeaways at the moment. AI Regulatory Capture, LLMs Thinking about Space and Time, and Generative AI Agents.
