Yoav Artzi: university labs have the competence, not the independence
fredahshi · x · 2026-09-14
Responding to the debate over whether university labs can do frontier AI research, roboticist Yoav Artzi argues they do have the competence — Stanford NLP included — but lack the independence and fiduciary duty, framing the limits as structural rather than talent-related. fredahshi endorses the take.
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