at the first moment that ai can fully replace a human researcher (that is, you can purely just put more compute in and get more research out, and only negligible human labor is required), the ai will probably be more expensive per unit of research than the human
Why do you think this? It seems to me that for most tasks once an AI gets some skill it is much cheaper to run it for that skill than a human.
Why do you think this? It seems to me that for most tasks once an AI gets some skill it is much cheaper to run it for that skill than a human.