Thomas Kwa

The US government may struggle to seize control of a frontier AI lab during the takeoff phase if most research progress is driven by AIs rather than humans, according to an analysis. The argument sugg…

Anthropic contributors merged 8× more code per day in Q2 2026 than in 2021-2024, and economic modeling by METR researcher Thomas Kwa suggests this implies a researcher uplift of >2× from coding agents…