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White House AI advisor Sriram Krishnan warns that open science and singularity-focused AI acceleration are becoming incompatible

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Sriram Krishnan, the White House AI advisor appointed by President Trump, posted on X that colleagues increasingly see open research norms clashing with beliefs in an accelerating path to AI singularity, and he argues the West must keep research, compute, and ideas openly distributed unless extraordinary evidence proves otherwise.

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Sriram Krishnan@sriramk#336inTech

just to state the obvious: think there's a collison course between those who believe research and science should be open and those who believe we are in an accelerating singularity curve.

I have many smart friends who have believed both for a while but seeing more and more their realization that these beliefs will be in conflict.

I for one believe that America and the west needs open and distributed access to research and computation and sharing of ideas at all times.

2:40 AM · Jun 10, 2026 · 211K Views
Policy Risk

Distributed Access Remains the Default Stance

Krishnan frames open science as the historical Western baseline and rejects the idea that 'this time it is different' as justification for restricting access, leaving the burden on anyone proposing limits.

Open Question

No External Confirmation Yet on the Tension

The warning appears only in Krishnan's June 10 posts and replies, with no linked policy documents, administration statements, or corroborating coverage available at the time of the snapshot.

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Positive users back calls for open access to AI research because it accelerates civilization and benefits humanity, while negative users accuse advocates of VC hypocrisy or question who will fund it.

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Garry Tan@garrytan

Open access to innovation must be protected

Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

just to state the obvious: think there's a collison course between those who believe research and science should be open and those who believe we are in an accelerating singularity curve.

I have many smart friends who have believed both for a while but seeing more and more their realization that these beliefs will be in conflict.

I for one believe that America and the west needs open and distributed access to research and computation and sharing of ideas at all times.

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Yann LeCun@ylecun

@sriramk We've been colliding head-on repeatedly for several years now.

Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

just to state the obvious: think there's a collison course between those who believe research and science should be open and those who believe we are in an accelerating singularity curve.

I have many smart friends who have believed both for a while but seeing more and more their realization that these beliefs will be in conflict.

I for one believe that America and the west needs open and distributed access to research and computation and sharing of ideas at all times.

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Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

@ylecun Yes. And open research and science needs to prevail.

Yann LeCun@ylecun

@sriramk We've been colliding head-on repeatedly for several years now.

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Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

@garrytan democratization of access to tech and research has been the heart of Silicon Valley forever.

Garry Tan@garrytan

Open access to innovation must be protected

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Sreeram Kannan@sreeramkannan

@sriramk We did this experiment to get the open community armed with AI agents to invent a Quantum Circuit which is 13x better than the published SOTA and beat Google's unpublished circuit.

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Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

@tunguz @franciscojarceo I grew up on open source, it and open access to computing and research is why my entire career exists.

Bojan Tunguz@tunguz

@sriramk @franciscojarceo Thank you for saying that.

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Charles Foster@CFGeek

I don’t think that these are necessarily on a collision course. Here is my synthesis:

An intelligence recursion is far too powerful and risky to happen behind closed doors. If done at all it should be done out in the open, accountable to outside scientists & the public at large.

Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

just to state the obvious: think there's a collison course between those who believe research and science should be open and those who believe we are in an accelerating singularity curve.

I have many smart friends who have believed both for a while but seeing more and more their realization that these beliefs will be in conflict.

I for one believe that America and the west needs open and distributed access to research and computation and sharing of ideas at all times.

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Bojan Tunguz@tunguz

@sriramk @franciscojarceo Thank you for saying that.

Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

just to state the obvious: think there's a collison course between those who believe research and science should be open and those who believe we are in an accelerating singularity curve.

I have many smart friends who have believed both for a while but seeing more and more their realization that these beliefs will be in conflict.

I for one believe that America and the west needs open and distributed access to research and computation and sharing of ideas at all times.

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Sreeram Kannan@sreeramkannan

@sriramk There seems to be a world where (1) AI and agents can maximize individual agency and (2) another world where it constrains it.

Deeply appreciate your leadership and stewardship towards the former. We need a lot more work to get there!

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Vincent Weisser@vincentweisser

@sriramk 100% agree! thanks for your work pushing for this Srinam!! 🙏

Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

just to state the obvious: think there's a collison course between those who believe research and science should be open and those who believe we are in an accelerating singularity curve.

I have many smart friends who have believed both for a while but seeing more and more their realization that these beliefs will be in conflict.

I for one believe that America and the west needs open and distributed access to research and computation and sharing of ideas at all times.

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Charles Foster@CFGeek

@sriramk I think they could both be true!

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Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

@kzitouni1 I refuse to believe a small set of people however well meaning are safer than broad academic scrutiny.

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engineer guy@dragonmhmh8

@sreeramkannan @sriramk My Code Already Cracks 20-19 Bits Keys : https://github.com/threealgos/Quantum-RegeV-Cracker

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Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

@theHazarika I think the answer to that is having more science and research to make it serve everyone, not less.

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Vincent Weisser@vincentweisser

@sriramk 100% agree! thanks for your work pushing for this Sriram!! 🙏

Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

just to state the obvious: think there's a collison course between those who believe research and science should be open and those who believe we are in an accelerating singularity curve.

I have many smart friends who have believed both for a while but seeing more and more their realization that these beliefs will be in conflict.

I for one believe that America and the west needs open and distributed access to research and computation and sharing of ideas at all times.

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David Manheim@davidmanheim

@sriramk It sounds like you reject the notion that we are in an accelerating singularity curve? (Or is the argument that even if progress is accelerating, openness is sufficiently safe? Or that open progress justifies some safety tradeoff?)

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Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

@davidmanheim the second statement is closest to my world view. I believe in Linus's Law. If we *are* in a singularity, I want as many smart people in the west to be involved in research on this as possible.

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Sriram Krishnan@sriramk

@AWar1586398 They are not obviously

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