Summer 2026:
Palm Springs.

The first Uncharted Frontier chapter: a month in Palm Springs for thirty-two people already shaping AI’s technical, organizational, scientific, and cultural future.

The first chapter

A desert setting for difficult, necessary conversation.

Summer 2026: Palm Springs is not a conference that happens to last a month. It is a working chapter in a traveling institution: enough time in one place for the room to develop its own vocabulary, its own disagreements, and a view worth carrying forward.

The Palm Springs chapter establishes the basic Uncharted Frontier format—participant-led inquiry, researchers in close conversation, generous conditions for work, and a collective public record at the end of the month.

The conditions

Serious work deserves generous conditions.

Stay

Private bedrooms and baths, grouped in intimate two-to-four bedroom suites and casitas.

Work

Climate-controlled studios, quiet rooms, dependable connectivity, and time after the shared day.

Gather

Chef-led meals, long tables, small salons, pools, and desert evenings that keep conversation going.

Restore

Weekends with lighter structure: architecture, art, early light, swims, and room to recover.

What happens here

A shared day, a wider month

Keynotes, studios, long lunches, and the hours in between.

Weekdays hold the core rhythm: working AI researchers on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; participant-led sessions throughout; peer circles and editorial work built into the afternoon. Evenings and weekends leave room for the work, rest, and conversation that no schedule can manufacture.

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What remains

The first public record of the frontier.

The chapter closes with the inaugural Uncharted Frontier Outlook: thirty-two forecasts, claims the room can defend, disagreements the group refuses to smooth over, and the questions it believes the field should confront next.

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The series continues

Palm Springs is full. Boulder is next.

Winter 2026: Boulder is the next Uncharted Frontier chapter.

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