Stanford professor fires back: calling genomic variant effect scores 'AI slop' is nonsense
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-09-18
Stanford professor Anshul Kundaje wrapped up his exchange with Steven, saying he looks forward to a more substantive critique. While agreeing misleading marketing and hype should be corrected, he argued that claiming variant effect scores from AG — and by extension all sequence-to-omics models — are 'AI slop' is utter nonsense. Another round in the debate over AI for Science output quality vs. hype.
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