
Guest
Zack Kass
Co-founder & President, Korza
Built OpenAI's sales, partnerships and solutions teams through ChatGPT's launch; now advises Fortune 1000 boards.
Real Alpha has cut 4 moments of Zack Kass (Co-founder & President, Korza) talking, from an interview on Modern Wisdom published Aug 17, 2026.
What Zack Kass said
AI DEBATE: “Most People Have No Idea What’s Coming”
4 moments · 19 min
- 55:27
Automated AI research could sharply change the pace of progress
“the amount of compute required for inference is so great, and we do not have anywhere near enough.”
at 58:02 - 8:32
Political protections can slow automation even when technology is ready
“One of the other reasons is we still forget how much political protection moves the technological needle.”
at 9:55 - 1:54:36
AI policy should focus on diffusion, not just model development
“while we have made porn and gambling and addiction and violence and isolation infinitely inexpensive we have made housing health care and education prohibitively expensive”
at 1:55:56 - 36:31
Abundance can let some people disengage and others overperform
“we actually created a world where we told kids, you can do whatever you want, and a lot of kids said, cool, I'll do nothing.”
at 37:42
- 55:27