At a moment when artificial intelligence promised to accelerate humanity's deepest inquiries, two voices from within the scientific and technical community are raising a quieter, more unsettling question: what becomes of knowledge itself when the institutions meant to advance it begin to consume it? Mathematician Terence Tao, whose optimism about AI has curdled into alarm over the past year, and former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who departed citing misaligned priorities, are warning that the implicit trust sustaining open science may already be fracturing. Their concern is not about wha