DeepMind researcher: AI lets him do research that once required going back to grad school
RishiBommasani · x · 2026-11-07
Google DeepMind's Alex Olegimas, speaking on the MTS podcast, says the real uplift from AI isn't speed or automation — it's being able to do research he could never have attempted before.
He now works across macroeconomics, parts of sociology, and computer science, fields where he knows enough of the landscape to verify his own work — research that previously would have required going back to graduate school.
"It's not so much an uplift, it completely blew open the gates in terms of what my capabilities are," he said, calling AI a superpower for researchers.
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