Thoughts on AI in academia - by Sasha Gusev
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PhD-level thinking, LLM bias, alignment, AGI, data centers, and AI politics
Herbert Bayer, Convolution, 1948 I keep a list of a few dozen projects ideas that might be of interest and technical ability for a PhD rotation project in statistical genetics. To get a better understanding of what the frontier models are capable of, I rewrote nine projects as LLM prompts and then asked Codex (GPT-5.5-high) and Claude (Opus-4.7-high) to implement them. As you can see from an example prompt1, I described these projects at a high level and without excessive context, similar to how I might explain the project to a colleague who was already somewhat familiar with the research…
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