Two to three weeks after leaving a frontier lab, your AI knowledge is obsolete
tallinzen · x · 2026-10-12
A sharp AI-community quip: you have roughly a two-to-three-week window after leaving a frontier lab to appear on Ezra Klein-style shows about AI, after which your knowledge is obsolete — unless you're innately AGI-pilled. The quoted context raises a heavier question from Andrej Karpathy's claim: if only 5,000 people, most with financial stakes in AI companies, truly understand AI, what does that mean for democracy, regulation and governance?
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