What Ilya Sutskever thinks about AI and science

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Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc., and previously co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI.

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25 Nov 2025

Our readingA million copies of one researcher would hit diminishing returns quickly, because what research needs is people who think differently.

Their wordsI think I think there'll definitely be there'll be diminishing returns because you want you want people who think differently rather than the same. I think that if they were literal copies of me, I'm not sure how much more incremental value you'd get.

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