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The more AI in academia/research discourse I see, the more I think that original thinkers who work hard (a group in much shorter supply than anyone wants to admit) are going to become even more rare and insanely valuable. What y’all call inefficiency is what I call the foundations of creativity.

8/8/26, 1:51 pm0 reposts5 likes

Ed Carr

@edwardrcarr.com

8 Aug

I write this as someone using AI to develop meta-lessons about what works in adaptation. The tool helps scan the literature…but it takes deep knowledge, thinking, experience, and judgment to design and refine the tool. Or just to frame the right questions. The tool can’t do that.

Ed Carr

@edwardrcarr.com

8 Aug

Basically, if you are engaged in social scientific research and AI can define your question and answer your question, you are not working on an interesting question. You might get some pubs out, but they won’t matter.