AI safety researcher: AI frees academia to focus on fundamental problems compute can't solve
mboehme_ · x · 2026-10-24
In a debate on whether AI makes some academic problems obsolete, researcher mboehme argues AI frees the community from mundane, quickly-tested applications, letting academics focus on fundamental long-term problems that aren't simply solved by more compute.
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