How AI Is Changing What Work Means

AI is lowering the cost of original scientific research enough that non-expert firms like a financial newsletter can run real drug-discovery experiments.

• Citrini's scorpion experiment: Financial research firm Citrini used Claude (300 sub-agents) to generate 318,000 candidate proteins, narrowing to 211 then 17 that bind scorpion neurotoxins, for under $200K.
• No cure yet: None of the 17 candidates has been shown to actually neutralize venom—critics note binding was demonstrated in literature 15+ years ago.

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