Why it’s still open
AI makes individual ideas better and the pool of ideas more alike. If whole teams, fields or cultures draft with the same few models, collective originality may shrink even as each person improves. Nobody has measured this at the level of an organization or a discipline.
What would count as an answer
Measures of idea diversity across teams or fields over time, compared by how heavily they rely on the same models.
Papers that tackle it
- Doshi Hauser 2024 - Creativity and collective diversity — Better stories, more alike.
- Meincke Nave Terwiesch 2025 - ChatGPT decreases idea diversity — Fewer unique ideas.
- Qin et al 2025 - Timing matters — Using AI from the start costs originality.
Methods in play
Who’s closest
Placed by the editor, v1 — corrections welcome.
Related questions
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