Fast Company feature: elite experts are training the AI that may replace them
A Fast Company Chinese edition feature, republished by Huxiu AI, profiles the fast-growing white-collar gig workforce that probes frontier models for failures and teaches them to do better. It follows game-theory researcher Lazaros-Antonios Chatzilazarou, recruited by San Francisco AI training startup Mercor via LinkedIn, who now writes prompts, tests how models apply game theory and scores their answers as a side job. Mercor CEO Brendan Foody says the company pays up to $5 million a day to experts on its roster of more than 100,000, and that demand runs three to four times its supply capacity. The piece also covers Surge AI, founded by Edwin Chen in 2020 and bootstrapped past $1 billion in revenue with reported clients including OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and Meta, plus Scale AI's Outlier network, Ethos, Wirestock and Shift; it notes concerns about unpaid assessments and deactivated accounts, and an IMF estimate that generative AI will touch about 40% of jobs globally.
The feature documents how frontier labs now buy elite domain expertise by the hour — Mercor says it pays experts up to $5 million a day and faces demand three to four times its supply — while some of those experts worry the work makes them replaceable.

世界上最聪明的人,正把自己训练成可被取代的人,而且乐在其中。那是九月的一个凌晨,大约1点30分,Lazaros-Antonios Chatzilazarou收到了一条领英消息。他正熬夜打电子游戏——这是他在攻读博弈论博士学位、同时兼顾安永(EY)的工作和伦敦政治经济学院教职之余,允许自己享受的一点放纵。他暂停......
本文来自微信公众号: Fast Company中文版 ,作者:Stokel-Walker,原文标题:《最聪明的人,正在亲手训练取代自己的 AI》
世界上最聪明的人,正把自己训练成可被取代的人,而且乐在其中。
那是九月的一个凌晨,大约1点30分,Lazaros-Antonios Chatzilazarou收到了一条领英消息。他正熬夜打电子游戏——这是他在攻读博弈论博士学位、同时兼顾安永(EY)的工作和伦敦政治经济学院教职之余,允许自己享受的一点放纵。他暂停游戏,打开领英,读那条消息。
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