Neuroscientist Konrad Kording: by the time AI books are easy, reader standards will be far higher
KordingLab · x · 2026-10-21
Responding to a suggestion that every professor should plan their perfect book now and 'prompt it into being' in a few months, computational neuroscientist Konrad Kording (KordingLab) pushed back: by then, standards for books will have risen so much that prompt-generated books won't have many readers.
The exchange captures a core tension in AI-era knowledge production—when generation cost drops to zero, scarcity shifts to what's actually worth reading.
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