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AI can boost productivity, but blunt creativity expert says

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  David Deming, PhD

  Labor economics and education policy

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  Harvard University

  And then the researchers, so the thing is it makes them a lot more productive, but it makes the researchers a little bit more unhappy because it actually takes the creative aspect of the job away, which is coming up with the idea. And instead, what the researchers have to do is use their vast corpus of knowledge to say, well, which of these ideas AI generated are actually good leads? And then do the kind of grunt work of figuring that out.

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  Alwin de Rooij, PhD

  Creativity research and design cognition

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  Tilburg University

  When millions of people use the same AI systems, the likelihood increases that creative processes will converge toward the same types of ideas.

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  Adam Green, PhD

  Cognitive neuroscience and creativity research

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  Georgetown University

  What AI is doing in a way that nothing else ever has is asking us to trade that process in favor of product.

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  Aditya Vashistha, PhD

  Human–Computer Interaction and Human–AI Interaction

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  Cornell University

  People start writing similarly to others, and that’s not what we want. One of the beautiful things about the world is the diversity that we have.

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  Roy H. Perlis, MD, MSc

  Psychiatry

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  JAMA and the JAMA Network

  LLMs trained on the existing literature may instead privilege incremental work, nudging science toward monoculture.

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