Why AI won't boost paper output for researchers who chase hard problems
kfountou · x · 2026-09-22
A counterintuitive take: for researchers who care about solving genuinely hard problems, AI won't increase paper-count productivity. They'll focus on problems that remain hard even with AI consultation, while easy ones get filtered out as no longer worth the difficulty.
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