Could AI slow science?

Sayash Kapoor · 16 Jul 2025

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Accelerating the production of papers does not address what actually bottlenecks scientific progress.

Their wordsThey are simply trying to accelerate production, which is like adding lanes to a highway when the slowdown is actually caused by a toll booth.
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More findings and papers within an old paradigm cannot produce the progress that a new way of understanding does.

Their wordsNo amount of findings or papers in older paradigms of geology would have led to the same progress that plate tectonics did.

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