Steve Hsu relays insider claim: smartest AI researcher in the West is Dario Amodei
sahilypatel · x · 2026-10-26
Physicist Steve Hsu relays a claim from an SF AI insider at a recent dinner: the smartest AI researcher in the entire Western ecosystem is a certain theoretical physicist known for scaling — i.e., Dario Amodei, whom Hsu jokingly calls his "academic nephew." The post quotes the same set of college anecdotes about Amodei (his professor calling him a "national treasure" and Musk personally offering him a SpaceX job).
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