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Did AI speed up science?
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On 1 October 2026, arXiv capped its authors at two papers a month after a record 40,363 submissions in September. It looks like proof that AI has sent research output through the roof. The data says something narrower.
In this episode I go through ten years of publishing data by year, field and country:
Why world journal output grew faster before ChatGPT than after it
How China and India added more papers between 2021 and 2024 than the whole world did
Why mathematics, not computer science…
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