Hassabis: AI to Turn Social Sciences Into Experimental Science
r0ck3t23 · x · 2026-07-09
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis believes AI will unlock new scientific frontiers, particularly through simulation. He notes that physics is a true science because its experiments are reproducible, whereas social sciences like economics cannot realistically conduct repeated experiments on hundreds of millions of people.
He emphasizes that AI's powerful simulation capabilities could change this, allowing complex social and economic theories to be simulated and verified just like physical experiments.
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