Rishi Bommasani: The real cost of joining a frontier lab is losing your public voice
RishiBommasani · x · 2026-09-15
Stanford researcher Rishi Bommasani reflects on the price of joining frontier AI labs. Despite having turned down lucrative offers to stay independent, he says these roles can be high-impact and worth taking. What saddens him most: researchers who join labs routinely give up not just open research publication but public discourse on AI, removing key voices from the debate exactly when they're most needed.
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