Josh Batson no longer has time for social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The AI researcher\u2019s only comparable dopamine hit these days is on Anthropic\u2019s Slack workplace-messaging channels, where he explores chatter about colleagues\u2019 theories and experiments on large language models and architecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Batson is among a group of core artificial-intelligence researchers and executives who are facing a relentless grind, racing to keep pace with a seemingly endless cycle of disruption in pursuit of systems with superhuman intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Inside Silicon Valley\u2019s biggest AI labs, top researchers and executives are regularly working 80 to 100 hours a week. Several top researchers compared the circumstances to war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019re basically trying to speedrun 20 years of scientific progress in two years,\u201d said Batson, a research scientist at Anthropic. Extraordinary advances in AI systems are happening \u201cevery few months,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the most interesting scientific question in the world right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read it all<\/a>.<\/p> Take an early look at the front page of today's Wall Street Journal https:\/\/t.co\/5Z4hcbTVXK<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/NrLMRqJWUU<\/a><\/p>— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) October 23, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>