Zico Kolter

Academic and AI safety expert

  1. It is clearly a different form of intelligence than people. It's some alien intelligence that is vastly different.
    Zico Kolter · Latent Space_ The AI Engineer Podcast · Red-Teaming after Mythos — Zico Kolter & Matt Fredrikson, Gray Swan · 2026-06-22
  2. If you just make a model bigger and bigger, it will not get safer... it will not get more robust to adversarial pressure.
    Zico Kolter · Latent Space_ The AI Engineer Podcast · Red-Teaming after Mythos — Zico Kolter & Matt Fredrikson, Gray Swan · 2026-06-22
  3. The name Gray Swan is sort of in reference to Black swan events, which are things no one could see coming. A gray swan is an unlikely event you can kind of see coming.
    Zico Kolter · Latent Space_ The AI Engineer Podcast · Red-Teaming after Mythos — Zico Kolter & Matt Fredrikson, Gray Swan · 2026-06-22