Terence Tao: AI speeds up science but may cost the next generation of scientists
haider1 · x · 2026-08-30
Fields Medalist Terence Tao warns that while AI accelerates scientific output, replacing grad students with AI might produce grad-student-level papers but at the cost of losing the next generation of scientists. Science involves not just results, but the cultivation of talent.
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