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
Mar 20, 2026 neutral
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…”
Mar 20, 2026 negative
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…”
Jun 10, 2026
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.”