AI's Tiny Army: 24K Researchers Serving 7 Billion
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AAAI had 6K people in pc. If we 4X that to extrapolate, the ballpark number of active AI researchers (defined as either publishing or reviewing at least 1 paper during the past 2 years) is probably around 24,000. That feels like such a tiny number relative to our 7B population!