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type: "synthesis"
articles: ["a072", "a073", "a099"]
tags: ["frontier-tech", "living-intelligence", "agi", "biotech", "sensors"]
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sources: ["futures"]
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articleStem: "hbr-seg-futures"
sourceUrl: "(unified vault: 11 sources)"
sourceTitle: "HBR — Futures / Macro — where it's all going"
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# Beyond the LLM

Three articles insist today's LLM is a *starting line*, not a destination — but they point at different next frontiers.

**A073 (Webb): sideways into biology and sensing.** [[concept-living-intelligence]] converges AI + [[concept-advanced-sensors]] + biotech. The trajectory: LLMs → [[concept-large-action-models|LAMs]] → [[concept-generative-biology]] ([[entity-alphaproteo]]) → [[concept-organoid-intelligence]] ([[entity-dishbrain]]). Her contrarian bets: [[claim-sensor-ubiquity]] (sensors are the next GPT) and [[contrarian-bioengineering-supremacy]] / [[claim-bioengineering-gpt]] (biology, not silicon, is the ultimate GPT).

**A099 (Stuart): straight ahead into AGI.** [[concept-agi-automation-threshold]] ([[quote-agi-definition|AGI = most computer tasks automated]]) driven by [[claim-compute-scaling-rate]] (4× Moore's Law), [[concept-recursive-algorithmic-development]], and [[concept-chain-of-reasoning]].

**A072 (Stuart, same author): outward into physical AI.** [[entity-waymo]] as the "crossed into sci-fi" exemplar; general-purpose robotics ([[claim-capex-obsolescence]]) — all deepening the [[concept-ai-fog]].

**The shared warning and shared skepticism:** all three say leaders who treat LLM deployment as "done" ([[claim-ai-myopia]] cross-refs A073) are myopic. Yet enrichment across all three is uniform: these frontiers are *forecasts*, not consensus — "Living Intelligence" is a brand, "AGI-by-automation" is a non-standard definition, and biology is slower/costlier/more regulated than software. See [[cross-epistemic-fog]] and [[cross-agentic-trajectory]].