Why Even a 10× Smarter AI Scientist Won’t Speed Up Science: The 300‑Year‑Old Paper Bottleneck
The article argues that despite rapid advances in AI scientists—automating literature review, hypothesis generation, experimentation, and writing—their impact on scientific speed is limited by a three‑century‑old research protocol, peer‑review bottlenecks, and incentive misalignments, which can only be overcome by redesigning the research artifact itself.
