Chemist Says AI Makes Idea Verification Scarce

Ash Jogalekar posted that abundant AI-generated ideas will make their careful verification a scarce and valuable resource. He compared the shift to Herbert Simon's observation that plentiful information renders attention scarce. Jogalekar works on agentic AI for science at Microsoft and holds a role at the Oppenheimer Project. The remark appeared in a public post on X that referenced another user's tweet.