Biologist Sri Kosuri: AI's Biggest Science Impact Is Speeding Up the Build-Learn Loop
nlarusstone · x · 2026-09-24
Synthetic biologist Sri Kosuri argues in a long-form essay that LLMs, given context and tools, will match scientists at many problems — including the operational ones eating scientists' time. Drawing on Bell Labs' transistor history, he contends the deepest questions only emerge through building; in frontier drug discovery, AI's biggest impact will come from accelerating the molecule/assay build-learn-reframe loop, not from better foundation models alone. Reposter nlarusstone adds that scientists will run many programs in parallel, not just one.
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