Pedro Domingos to universities: no point running trains on time off a cliff
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-16
Prominent ML researcher Pedro Domingos told university colleagues: "there's no point in keeping the trains running on time when they're going off a cliff" — implying AI-driven upheaval renders universities' current operations futile. No further argument given.
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