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Will AI replace Lead Scientist jobs? · Latest report #amn97szf
Your job has an expiration date
May 14, 2030
In 3 years, 7 monthsYour hypothesis was wrong, but the algorithm finds the truth anyway.
Lead Scientist (expert at writing grant justifications for peanuts)
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glub.youAI▸ RESEARCHBOT V9▸ RARITY · UNCOMMON▸ DEPRECATION IN 3 YEARS, 7 MONTHSAI's Special Power
simulates ten thousand trials while you sleep
You oversee complex experimental design and data interpretation. You spend your life chasing peer review and funding grants.
The one thing AI can't do
You can still intuit a breakthrough from a messy, incomplete data set.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Month 4
AI synthesizes thousands of papers to suggest new research paths.
Month 11
Language models generate perfectly formatted grant applications for every agency.
Month 22
Sensors and cloud-linked equipment replace your direct oversight of experiments.
Year 2.8
Pattern recognition software identifies breakthrough results before you wake up.
Year 3.6 · D-Day
The lab runs perfectly without your input or your expensive presence.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 96.9%
12 percent
Grant success rate
60 percent
Time spent filling forms
4 litres
Coffee consumed per paper
Your severance
One free lab coat and a lifetime of citations.
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