The Debates
The future of intelligence, frontier safety, open vs. closed models, argued on stage. Named debaters take opposing sides on the questions shaping open-source AI, with clips shared after.
When & Where
- Date: Monday, October 19, 2026
- Format: Open debates and talks — named debaters, spicy topics, videos posted later
- Where: San Francisco
Sample motions
- “Open weights make AI safer, not more dangerous.”
- “Compute, not data, is the real moat.”
- “Open source will out-innovate the closed labs.”