Elon Musk says there will be no ‘researchers’ at xAI—just engineers who can actually build things. In a tweet, he called the researcher title “made-up” and “pretentious,” sparking a fresh debate in the AI world.

Elon Musk's xAI is doing away with the title "researcher," opting for "engineer" for all technical roles, a decision prompted by Musk's direct intervention on X. This move aims to eliminate what Musk sees as a two-tiered system,

"There are only engineers. Researcher is a relic term from academia," Musk said of xAI's approach.