https://www.researchagenda.news/articles/the-waymo-effect.html
The research on research should give us pause here. We know from the team-science literature that small teams tend to disrupt while large teams develop, and that it is the unexpected combinations of collaborators – the atypical pairings across fields and institutions – that disproportionately produce the most novel work. Meanwhile, the early evidence on generative AI points in a direction that should sound familiar: individual productivity rises while the diversity of ideas narrows, everyone moving faster along increasingly similar paths. We are, in effect, running an uncontrolled global experiment in trading serendipity for throughput – and the incentive structures we have built are the experimental apparatus.