Alexandr Wang

Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang). Three saved items involve him:

A 2022 tweet thread posting a memo he sent the Scale team in 2019, arguing that organizations die a “slow death of optimism”: the scope a team states for how long something will take influences how long it takes, illustrated with a histogram of marathon finish times that cluster just under round goals (Building a Product Engine, Velocity).
Eric Schmidt on Navigating an AI-Enabled Future (TransformX 2022), where he interviews Eric Schmidt; the notes there record his line that technologists need geopolitical training.
What Just Happened With the Pacing AI Debate (TBPN), which lists him among the voices whose statements on AI policy were rounded up.

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