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Philippe Kahn

Cofounder, Fullpower-AI

Search every verified Philippe Kahn interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Philippe Kahn delivered the keynote address at DecisionCAMP 2026 on August 25, 2026, titled "Bigger Models or Smarter Teams?" During the talk, he argued that the choice between larger AI models and more effective team collaboration is not a contest, stating that neither approach is exclusively right or wrong. He suggested that future intelligence architectures will use both, incorporating "world models" and orchestration. Kahn illustrated his points with examples from his work on the camera phone in 1997 and from sleep data analysis involving over 250 million nights, which he used to develop a "circadian score" aimed at helping people live healthier lives. Kahn also emphasized the importance of interaction and oversight in decision systems, noting that a system which can be corrected, challenged, and updated becomes more reliable than one relying on a fixed internal context. He stressed that for decision system practitioners, evaluating the model while ignoring the surrounding architecture is a significant oversight, and that who proposes, challenges, and stops the process matters as much as the model itself. He further discussed the need for checks and balances in systems where mistakes are irreversible, such as self-driving cars or managing mission-critical data like wedding pictures.

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