A meme casts AI as the next extinction event after theoretical physics
KeanuRave100 · reddit · 2026-07-22
A meme post joking that AI is the next step after “theoretical physics,” riffing on a screenshot where Sabine Hossenfelder replies to Will Kinney’s claim that AI could be an extinction-level event for math.
The post itself contains no new technical information, but it packages the recurring “AI will replace scientific work” debate into a shareable joke.
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