Survey of 637 scientists: AI saves 7 hours a week but 41% face a backlog of untested hypotheses
VraserX · x · 2026-09-24
A new Google/MIT survey of 637 scientists found respondents save almost seven hours a week with AI — yet 41% report a growing backlog of untested hypotheses.
The author argues automated labs are badly underestimated: when AI can generate extraordinary ideas at scale, the bottleneck shifts to running experiments. A lab that experiments around the clock is more exciting than another app organizing your inbox.
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