Scholar calls on AI industry to stop calling megacorps 'labs'
JessicaHullman · x · 2026-09-05
Princeton researcher Matthew Sun argues in The Atlantic that the term 'lab' should be abandoned for the AI industry's most powerful corporations, reserving it for organizations whose primary activity is scientific research. Jessica Dai quipped that it's okay when your little research lab grows into a megacorp.
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