Why not hire a graduate and empower them to use AI? Much better interfacing with an actual human who will then go and do the work using all AI tools at their disposal.
> Why not hire a graduate and empower them to use AI?
A lot of my work with AI involves questions where I have an intuitive direction and sense of the data or model, but where explaining why takes almost as much work as doing it. (Commonalities: weird interdisciplinary nexuses and idiosyncratic data sources.) Adding a human translator, much less someone without field experience, seems worse than giving the task to a human or AI wholesale.
Where humans still reign supreme is in interacting with other humans. Paradoxically, this might make grad students’ roles attending staff meetings as their professors’ proxies and/or filling out paperwork.
