Eric Weinstein calls AI's trophy-value capture from researchers a market failure
hugobowne · x · 2026-09-09
Eric Weinstein argues that named scientific problems have become trophies for the tech elite in the AI era, worth more to them than to the researchers who laid the groundwork. Those who create value as researchers are unable to capture it — a market failure, in his words, that everyone should recognize.
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