Researchers warn the AI labs' race for scientific priority kills quality
JMateosGarcia · x · 2026-09-09
- @roelofvandijk mused that we could have woken up to "OpenAI and Anthropic team up, solve Navier-Strokes cleanly, fully formalized" with a nice explanation by Tao — but the world doesn't work that way.
- @abhishekn reshared it, citing colleagues Carolyn Sms and Ryan Reed Hill's research on competition in science: bluntly, "the race for priority kills quality," an implicit jab at today's AI labs racing for scientific breakthroughs.
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