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Bred to Break: What a 1970 Corn Blight Teaches Us About Distilled LLMs

Leo Elmecker-Plakolm¹, Lukasz Szpruch^2,3, Avishek Joey Bose^1,4∗, Matthew Wicker^1∗

¹Imperial College London ²The University of Edinburgh ³The Alan Turing Institute ⁴Mila – Québec AI Institute

October 2026 · ^∗Equal supervision