US Open Prize Money: Junior Researchers Are Exposed

US Open prize money is exposing the first sports research jobs AI can compress. AI can already find payout figures, compare years, and draft a clean research brief before a junior researcher finishes the first pass. The open question is whether human judgment stays valuable once the easy research disappears. Is sports research safe, or should the teammate saying “AI can’t do this” start retraining? Pick a side in the comments.