Bay Area AI tribalism: frontier-risk crowd relieved to be outside the startup ecosystem
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-09-03
Bay Area AI practitioner avramidou tweets she's grateful to be part of the "frontier AI risk/transhumanist" ecosystem rather than the "tech startup" one — a snapshot of the cultural divide inside San Francisco's AI scene.
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