AI companies stripping universities of their best computer scientists
TechnologyWhere Did All the Computer-Science Professors Go?AI companies are stripping universities of their best researchers.By Lila Shroff and Rose HorowitchIllustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Levent Konuk; Yevgen Romanenko.July 21, 2026 ShareSave Listen−1.0x+Seek0:0011:20Anthropic has poached such an array of high-profile professors that it has become a punch line in academia. “‘I’m joining Anthropic’ is the new meme right now,” Subbarao Kambhampati, a computer-science professor at Arizona State University (who has not joined Anthropic), told us.
- ▪TechnologyWhere Did All the Computer-Science Professors Go?AI companies are stripping universities of their best researchers.By Lila Shroff and Rose HorowitchIllustration by The Atlantic.
- ▪Sources: Levent Konuk; Yevgen Romanenko.July 21, 2026 ShareSave Listen−1.0x+Seek0:0011:20Anthropic has poached such an array of high-profile professors that it has become a punch line in academia.
- ▪“‘I’m joining Anthropic’ is the new meme right now,” Subbarao Kambhampati, a computer-science professor at Arizona State University (who has not joined Anthropic), told us.
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TechnologyWhere Did All the Computer-Science Professors Go?AI companies are stripping universities of their best researchers.By Lila Shroff and Rose HorowitchIllustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Levent Konuk; Yevgen Romanenko.July 21, 2026 ShareSave Listen−1.0x+Seek0:0011:20Anthropic has poached such an array of high-profile professors that it has become a punch line in academia. “‘I’m joining Anthropic’ is the new meme right now,” Subbarao Kambhampati, a computer-science professor at Arizona State University (who has not joined Anthropic), told us. This month, the AI company hired the chair of UC Berkeley’s department of electrical engineering and computer science, presumably to help build more capable bots.
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