Commenter ties Google DeepMind's decline to researchers' extraordinary bargaining power
S_OhEigeartaigh · x · 2026-09-12
- The poster calls this a small but appreciable contribution to Google DeepMind's decline, hoping the lab regains its senses.
- Quoting Kelsey Tuoc: allowing talk about the stakes is a product of extraordinary employee bargaining power, just like $1M+ salaries — a lab banning such talk would lose researchers to rivals; this will change if labs can replace researchers with AI.
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