Academic frontier AI governance researcher feels "mighty lonely" in the field
weballergy · x · 2026-08-19
A scholar expressed feeling increasingly lonely as a frontier AI governance researcher in academia. The original author expressed surprise, noting that there has never been a better time for such research given the abundance of important questions. This sparked a discussion about the popularity of the field and the state of the researcher community.
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