# Intelligence at the Frontier: Funding the Commons Festival for AI & Human Flourishing (SF 2026)

- Channel: [Funding the Commons](https://streameth.org/funding_the_commons)
- Date: 2026-04-09
- Duration: 02:48
- Topics: AI conference 2026, AI governance, human flourishing, public goods, AI safety, San Francisco tech 2026, Protocol Labs, Funding the Commons, web3 AI, decentralized AI, AI policy, frontier technology, AI hackathon, longevity, sovereign infrastructure, agentic AI, AI festival, SF tech events 2026, public goods funding, AI coordination, crypto AI, AI infrastructure, AI and society
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-ycYmiMDX26o
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycYmiMDX26o

## Description

What does it look like to build for human flourishing in the age of AI?

Intelligence at the Frontier was a 36-hour festival, conference, and overnight hackathon across 16 floors of Frontier Tower in San Francisco. 1,000 researchers, builders, artists, funders, and policymakers. 

Talks, workshops, live music, immersive art, real-time public goods funding experiments—and a lot of great conversations.This is a glimpse of what happened inside.

Speakers included Juan Benet (Protocol Labs), Illia Polosukhin (NEAR Protocol), Tom Kalil (Renaissance Philanthropy), Leo Gao (OpenAI), Luke Drago (Workshop Labs), Sheila Warren (fmr. World Economic Forum), Shaw Walters (ElizaOS), and Brian Behlendorf (EFF, Mozilla Foundation), alongside 160+ more voices across AI governance, longevity, sovereign infrastructure, and the coordination systems that determine whether intelligence serves everyone.

Filmed at Intelligence at the Frontier, March 14–15, 2026, Frontier Tower, San Francisco.

Presented by Funding the Commons, Frontier Tower & Protocol Labs.

Learn more: https://fundingthecommons.io