person
Neil Thompson
MIT CSAIL FutureTech director; computing economics
MIT researcher whose quantitative work on compute, scaling, and algorithmic progress has become standard reference material. Director of FutureTech at MIT CSAIL.
current Principal Investigator, FutureTech, MIT CSAIL
Strategy positions
Existential primacymixed
Extinction/disempowerment risk overrides ordinary cost-benefitGrounds the debate in quantitative compute trends; publishes data that informs both safety and policy conversations.
The compute required to train a language model to a given level of performance has been halving roughly every 8 months due to algorithmic improvements.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.