Princeton's Arvind Narayanan compiles ~100 posts on research careers and AI's impact on work
random_walker · x · 2026-10-19
Princeton professor Arvind Narayanan (randomwalker) compiled about a hundred of his posts on research careers, professional practice beyond academia, and AI's impact on work into a single collection. He highlights two distinguishing themes: 'grounded optimism' — candid about structural challenges and broken incentives while offering ways to adapt and when to push back — and connecting his own research on AI agent evaluation and AI's economic/labor effects to practical advice on integrating AI into work.
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