Stanford prof Anshul Kundaje: AI industry rife with fake-it-till-you-make-it grifting
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-11-08
Stanford professor Anshul Kundaje pushes back in a discussion: he believes in AI's dominance across domains including bio, but says a huge number of people are milking the moment with a fake-it-till-you-make-it attitude, and there's a ton of faking right now. He stresses he's equally critical of academia's problems—his point is that industry leaders aren't seriously calling out the grifting.
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