Stanford professor on AI-run bio experiments: without motion control, novices can't follow the AI
suragnair · x · 2026-09-25
Stanford professor Anshul Kundaje and suragnair debated why robots still struggle to run bio experiments: many require deft, hard-to-verbalize 'touch and feel' skills, making it unclear how a novice human could follow instructions from an AI that knows them exactly, without explicit motion control. Kundaje agreed, questioning feasibility and generalizability; suragnair argued the abstract 'magic hands' aspect stems from our lack of full observability into the experimental process.
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