Blogger predicts superintelligent AI will end science Nobel Prizes: a prompt isn't worth one
Dr_Singularity · x · 2026-09-11
Blogger DrSingularity argues science Nobel Prizes are likely doomed: humanity's hardest scientific challenges will be handed to superintelligent AIs, with Navier-Stokes as an early glimpse.
Humans will only ask questions and write prompts — and "find a room-temperature superconductor using all scientific literature" isn't, in his view, Nobel-worthy work. Problems within human reach will be mass-solved by AI; the rest will be too complex for humans.
A speculative personal take rather than evidence, but a framing device for debating how scientific credit survives the AGI era.
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