Obsession With AI May Be Starving the Research Fields It Needs to Survive
Symbiot10000 · reddit · 2026-10-22
Unite.ai argues that the current AI gold rush is draining talent and funding from the foundational disciplines—math, physics, neuroscience, cognitive science—that historically produced AI's biggest breakthroughs. With students and researchers flocking to lucrative ML jobs, the piece warns that starving these upstream fields could ultimately limit AI's own capacity for future innovation, and calls for preserving basic research even amid the commercial frenzy.
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