LLMs Are Breaking Science's 'Burden of Knowledge' Stagnation
emollick · x · 2026-08-12
Wharton Professor Ethan Mollick points out that science is facing a 'burden of knowledge': there is too much to read and absorb, which ossifies work and slows down progress.
He argues that LLMs are showing breakthrough potential in fields like math by combining ideas across subfields in novel ways. If LLMs did nothing else but this, it would still be revolutionary for scientific progress.
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