CAS Five-Year Plan gives AI for Science its own chapter, setting up a US-vs-China metascience bet
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-03
- Per @kyleichan, the Chinese Academy of Sciences' new Five-Year Plan dedicates a chapter to AI for Science, aiming to reshape research paradigms and management with AI.
- Commentator teortaxesTex frames it as a metascience experiment: the US will try to flood research with compute, while China—compute-constrained—may scale robots and lab assistants to generate more real-world data. Which approach wins is an open question.
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