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.
More from AGI Musings
- Cohere Labs launches interactive tool mapping which tasks of 178 occupations AI can automate — Cohere_Labs · 2026-09-11
- AI researcher on SkyNews flags concerns over inequality, power and criminal misuse — schwarzjn_ · 2026-09-11
- VC compares AI doom rhetoric to pandemic-era fear messaging — StewartalsopIII · 2026-09-11
- Anthropic Insiders: Not Everyone at the Lab Believes in High p(doom) — anpaure · 2026-09-11
- Could 10k agents discover learning methods beyond backprop, or just tweak existing ones? — SeunghyunSEO7 · 2026-09-11
- AI companionship dissolves the friction real intimacy needs, warns long-form thread — YogeshMalik · 2026-09-11