ML veteran Pedro Domingos works in the field labs most want to automate — and feels zero threat
pmddomingos · x · 2026-10-30
Pedro Domingos, prominent machine learning researcher, tweeted that his own area — AI research — is exactly what frontier labs are trying hardest to automate, yet he doesn't feel endangered in the least. The remark taps into the ongoing debate over whether AI automating AI research will displace researchers.
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