Stanford professor blasts AI industry hires as 'shameless,' sparks academia-vs-industry debate
fairer4scoring · x · 2026-09-09
Stanford professor Anshul Kundaje says he'd rather stay in academia than join AI company researchers who, in his words, are "spineless, ethically devoid" despite having insane resources. The quoted post counters that academia is just as bad — people jostle for first authorship and scooping results — to which Kundaje replies academics at least in principle can choose not to behave that way. A pointed academia-vs-industry culture clash circulating in the AI community.
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