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Assistant Professor of CS at University of Colorado Boulder, NLP and cultural analytics, 📚🎮🚲🏔️, maria-antoniak.github.io
Assistant Professor of CS at University of Colorado Boulder, NLP and cultural analytics, 📚🎮🚲🏔️, maria-antoniak.github.io
![Does the existential threat from Al raised by Jacob Coxon when he resigned from Anthropic reflect a real concern that you observe on a daily basis among young researchers?
Not among researchers, but the young people who work at these companies operate in a world [Silicon Valley, Berkeley, etc.] where these kinds of discussions are commonplace. *Many of them aren't really engineers; they come from the humanities, philosophy, or other disciplines.*(emphasis mine) They're 25 years old, they're naive, they don't do engineering work, they've never worked at large companies where real products are developed for real people, with discipline.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p572wxnsuoogcrhlfrlizlrb/bafkreicyfkllafrrycaz7owgtqhfxyhec4rlfhohfll6htk246z7rxrqam)