Linguist Najoung Kim warns commercial AI providers could monopolize independent scientific progress
najoungkim · x · 2026-11-11
Boston University researcher Najoung Kim raises a key concern in the AI-for-research discourse: if fixes to scientific problems require compute only commercial AI providers can afford, independent researchers may be locked out — and providers can always make their systems inaccessible. She argues preserving the collective ability to make independent human progress in science is important.
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