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Karpathy sketches unequal exposure to frontier AI

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The newsletter reports Andrej Karpathy’s rough hierarchy of six billion people barely using language models, twenty million frontier-model coders and five thousand insiders observing agent swarms.

Reported metric: 6 billion; 20 million; 5,000

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Indexed from Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross’s October 12, 2026 edition. This is an attributed summary; linked-source claims have not been independently verified.

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