Dimitris Papail: safety researcher may be the last technical AI job left
DimitrisPapail · x · 2026-11-06
MIT researcher Dimitris Papail offers a limit-case argument: once all AI research is automated away and tasks become arbitrarily complex, the only job left for humans is making sure reward hacking never happens — making the safety researcher "the last technical AI job left." The take taps into a core alignment concern: as models grow more capable, verifying automatically generated research becomes the final human check against reward hacking.
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