AI guiding wet-lab experiments stalls on touch and dexterity, argue Stanford bio researchers
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-09-25
Computational biologist Anshul Kundaje and suragnair debated whether AI can guide humans through wet-lab experiments. Kundaje argues most bio experiments rely on dexterous movements and hard-to-verbalize "feel," which novices can't follow from instructions alone without explicit motion control — and vision AI isn't yet good at learning by watching experts. Suragnair counters that the AI's role is to optimally instruct humans and course-correct after each step, not to execute experiments itself. The core disagreement: can purely instruction-based AI support experiments requiring physical intuition?
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