OpenAI researcher: AI can now deliver rigor of academic critique, research theater will be exposed
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-30
OpenAI researcher @jachiam0 argues that most "research" in non-technical fields is research theater, with superstar careers built on audience connection rather than truth.
No one has had the time or stature to hold popular researchers accountable — but machines can now do critique at a depth and rigor previously only possible for the academically obsessive. He predicts we'll have to revise much of what we "know" about the world that isn't really knowable.
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