# Zack Kass

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Real Alpha has cut 4 moments of Zack Kass (Co-founder & President, Korza) talking, from an interview on Modern Wisdom published Aug 17, 2026.

- Role: Co-founder & President, Korza
- About: Built OpenAI's sales, partnerships and solutions teams through ChatGPT's launch; now advises Fortune 1000 boards.
- On X: https://x.com/iamthezack

## What Zack Kass said

- [Automated AI research could sharply change the pace of progress](https://realalpha.app/s/automated-ai-research-could-sharply-change-the-pace-of/)
  Modern Wisdom · Aug 17, 2026 · 6 min
  > “the amount of compute required for inference is so great, and we do not have anywhere near enough.” — Zack Kass · [58:02](https://realalpha.app/v/mSjaMyP5QjY/?t=3482)
- [Political protections can slow automation even when technology is ready](https://realalpha.app/s/political-protections-can-slow-automation-even-when/)
  Modern Wisdom · Aug 17, 2026 · 6 min
  > “One of the other reasons is we still forget how much political protection moves the technological needle.” — Zack Kass · [9:55](https://realalpha.app/v/mSjaMyP5QjY/?t=595)
- [AI policy should focus on diffusion, not just model development](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-policy-should-focus-on-diffusion-not-just-model/)
  Modern Wisdom · Aug 17, 2026 · 4 min
  > “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” — Zack Kass · [1:55:56](https://realalpha.app/v/mSjaMyP5QjY/?t=6956)
- [Abundance can let some people disengage and others overperform](https://realalpha.app/s/abundance-can-let-some-people-disengage-and-others/)
  Modern Wisdom · Aug 17, 2026 · 3 min
  > “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.” — Zack Kass · [37:42](https://realalpha.app/v/mSjaMyP5QjY/?t=2262)

## The episode

- [AI DEBATE: “Most People Have No Idea What’s Coming”](https://realalpha.app/v/mSjaMyP5QjY/) · Modern Wisdom · Aug 17, 2026