MIT's Phillip Isola: frontier labs silo basic research; academia still best for understanding intelligence
DimitrisPapail · x · 2026-09-28
MIT professor Phillip Isola agreed with Dimitris Papail and went further: basic research inside frontier labs is mostly siloed there. If the goal is advancing the world's understanding of intelligence, he argues, basic research outside frontier labs remains the best place to do it — a notable statement on whether closed labs undercut science's collective mission.
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