LLM speed-ups in discovery or production raise the opportunity cost of researcher time, making scientists more selective in some phases, less thorough in most, and only deeper when follow-up work itself is accelerated.
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The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science
LLM speed-ups in discovery or production raise the opportunity cost of researcher time, making scientists more selective in some phases, less thorough in most, and only deeper when follow-up work itself is accelerated.