Research Gets Rebranded as an “Artisanal” Product in the AI Era
_akpiper · x · 2026-07-24
A quoted joke says one senior researcher is not changing work habits for AI and hopes there will be a market for “hand-crafted research,” like artisanal luxury goods. The reply calls it “literally the humanities.”
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