To me, the most compelling argument against AI in this setting is the observation that the process of scientific research and writing is inherently valuable, regardless of its output. @minaskar.bsky.social expressed it eloquently in the essay I quote from here: bsky.app/profile/mykm...
Mykhaylo M. Malakhov
"What matters is the process: the development and application of methods, the training of minds, the creation of people who know how to think about hard problems. If you hand that process to a machine, you haven't accelerated science. You've removed the only part of it that anyone actually needed."
Mykhaylo M. Malakhov
Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.
