AI to reshape academia: mathematicians will operate like biologists and vice versa
lpachter · x · 2026-08-15
Lior Pachter shares insights on AI's impact on academia: various fields have already been fundamentally transformed. He predicts that mathematicians will soon operate much more like modern biologists, while biologists will need to adapt to resemble today's mathematicians. He asserts this is not the end of academia, but the 'end of the beginning', marking a permanent shift in the structure of discovery enterprises despite the profound civilization-level findings ahead.
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