AI Researchers Are Having an Identity Crisis

Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter: • The Big Read: Welcome to the era of the eggmaxxer • Style and Shopping: A buyer’s guide to mogul casual, Sun Valley edition • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “ Signal Hill ,” “ The Sixth Nik ” and “ X-Men ’97 ” As AI rapidly improves in areas such as coding and mathematics, AI researchers are facing the same identity crisis that software engineers and other white-collar workers have been grappling with since the beginning of the AI boom: What should they do if AI automates their job? That question loomed large where I was this week: the International Conference on Machine Learning in Seoul, one of the biggest annual meetups for r