Follow-up on AI safety PhD controversy: smooth Bay Area funding suggests department is at fault
avt_im · x · 2026-11-14
In follow-up replies, avtim argues that since the PhD student at the center of the AI safety thesis controversy faced little trouble securing funding from the Bay Area ecosystem, the student's research ideas are probably not the problem — pointing again to the department as the likely source of the conflict.
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