Will the replication crisis slow AI progress? Burned-in intuitions may stay wrong
moultano · x · 2026-11-01
moultano argues that even if AI systems can critically review papers from fields hit by the replication crisis after the fact, the intuitions burned into them during training will remain largely wrong — so the crisis may meaningfully inhibit AI progress in those domains.
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