Unintended consequences of AI on academic research

Academia has been about publishing to advance science and get recognition, but in the future, if you're working on a cutting edge maths or physics problem, why would you make your advancement public? Especially if it is going to get stolen and fed into a system that will replace you. Sadly, I can imagine a world where the bleeding edge becomes closed again, as it has been for most of human history submitted by /u/DocBigBrozer [link] [comments]