AI researcher

also referred to as: ai researchers

5 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 20, 2026 by Andrej Karpathy · across every show →

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Mar 20, 2026 neutral
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Karpathy: AI researchers lose technical judgment after leaving frontier labs
“And I think if you're outside of that frontier lab your judgment fundamentally will start to drift because you're not part of the, you know, what's coming down the line.”
Andrej Karpathy Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 47:26 Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI
Mar 20, 2026 neutral
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Karpathy: Frontier AI researchers are actively automating themselves out of jobs
“Even with other research, like, OpenAI or, you know Anthropic or these other labs, like, they're employing, what, like, a thousand something researchers, right? These researchers are basically, like, glorified auto, like, you know. They're, like, automating th…”
Andrej Karpathy Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 43:43 Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI
Mar 20, 2026 negative
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Karpathy: Frontier lab researchers face pressure over what they can say
“Like, if you're inside one of the frontier labs, like, there are certain things that you can't say and conversely, there are certain things that the organization wants you to say, and, you know, they're not gonna twist your arm, but you feel the pressure of, l…”
Andrej Karpathy Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 45:59 Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI
Jun 10, 2026
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Zuckerberg: AI progress requires only a couple dozen researchers, not hundreds
“In order to make progress in AI, you don't need like many, many hundreds of AI researchers or thousands or anything like that. I think you can really make progress with you know, a very strong group of a dozen or a couple dozen people.”
Mark Zuckerberg Jun 10, 2026 ▶ 43:58 “Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg
Aug 6, 2026 negative
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Gil: Belief in 18-month ASI timelines could trigger a researcher burnout cycle
“I mean, I always wonder about second order effects of that belief of it's 18 months away, because That does suggest there could be a burnout cycle in 18 months.”
Elad Gil Aug 6, 2026 ▶ 20:30 Chasing Trillion-Dollar Companies, Founder Ambition, Token Budgets, & Regulatory Capture
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