AI researcher finds his 2001 paper to-do list — top idea still unwritten and now scooped
anderssandberg · x · 2026-10-19
Oxford researcher Anders Sandberg found his 2001 "Papers to do" file while digging through old backups. The top paper on the list is still sitting unfinished in his project folder. Asking ChatGPT what to do with it, he discovered the idea had already been scooped in 2025 — "fair enough," he says.
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