The Irony of AI: Top Researchers Are Automating Their Own Jobs
mattturck · x · 2026-07-25
Matt Turck points out a fundamental and under-discussed irony in the AI industry: the world's top researchers are actively building recursive auto-research systems, essentially researching their way out of their own jobs.
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