Schmidt: Co-authorship functions like startup equity for crowdsourced research
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Ludwig Schmidt, Stanford professor and Anthropic researcher, explains how shared authorship incentivizes high-effort decentralized benchmark development.
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“If you make it a paper and you give everyone a share in the project, this is a little bit like in the startup ecosystem, right? Everyone gets a little bit of equity. Everyone gets a little bit of co-authorship.”
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