Researcher urges AI lab staff to slow down as labs can fire them and renege on commitments
sethlazar · x · 2026-10-02
Amid OpenAI turmoil, manlikemishap urges researchers at frontier labs to rethink what they work on: you can be fired at any moment and companies can renege on commitments about how your research is deployed. His advice: pace yourself, take a long lunch, and he hints at a longer thread to come.
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