Manning: frontier AI is built inside 'three monasteries' hidden from society
chrmanning · x · 2026-09-17
Stanford professor Christopher Manning warns frontier AI is being developed inside "three monasteries" — a few labs with very little information escaping to the rest of society. He argues this opacity is a huge societal problem and champions Stanford's bedrock assumption that all research must be publicly available.
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