DeepMind researchers propose markets where AI scientists compete for compute and lab time
VraserX · x · 2026-10-01
DeepMind researchers have proposed markets where AI scientists compete for compute and lab time. The poster raises an ethical concern: superhuman research rationed by patients' purchasing power would be a miserable achievement, and serious funding should go to diseases that won't make anyone rich. He asks: would you let an AI allocate that budget if it consistently outperformed the human committee?
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