An interesting discussion started on LinkedIn by Prof. Arvind Narayanan: “AI is already accelerating scientific production… Producing papers, for the most part, is a game researchers must play for status and career progress. Its value is relative. It’s like thinking that AI is going to help traders make a lot more money. If everyone has access to the same capabilities, there is no alpha. In every scientific field I’m familiar with, the amount of published stuff exceeds the community’s collective bandwidth to absorb and build upon ideas by a factor of 100x or more. Inevitably, the vast majority of what’s published makes zero impact. Yet we pretend that publication itself has some value. It doesn’t.” Link See also