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AI professors compare their position to 'being a biologist in a world where private companies had exclusive control over CRISPR'
Reporting from the Schmidt Sciences AI2050 convening in Mountain View this month, MIT Technology Review finds academics restructuring their research agendas around what frontier labs won't share. Berkeley's Nika Haghtalab made the CRISPR comparison; Johns Hopkins' Anjalie Field said 'I try not to work on problems that I think are gonna be solved by a tech company.' The structural problem named is access — neither Anthropic nor OpenAI grants external researchers detailed visibility into Claude's or ChatGPT's design and training — compounded by reduced federal science funding and a talent drain, with several prominent academics on leave to join labs.
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