John Schulman is introduced as Thinking Machines' chief scientist in the September 2026 Dwarkesh panel on AI research.
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Schulman separates carrying out experiments from deciding what to seek. Useful research also involves judgment, realistic tasks and objectives that reflect what people actually want.
Open conversationJohn Schulman, and largely agree that choosing objectives and the next experiment remains difficult for models. They disagree about how long that limitation lasts and what could overcome it.
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