58% of Anthropic staff expect Claude to make a Nobel-level discovery by 2027
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-10-17
An internal survey found 58% of Anthropic employees expect Claude to be capable of a Nobel prize-level scientific discovery by 2027, prompting jokes that the other 42% presumably think we'll all be dead before the end of 2027 — a darkly funny window into frontier-lab AGI expectations.
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