Stanford Professor: Don't Expect Causality to Emerge from Training on Billions of Cells
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-10-03
Stanford computational biology professor Anshul Kundaje criticizes the belief that "causality will get magically learned by training a transformer on billions of cells," calling it a complete lack of basic first-principles thinking in AI-for-biology work.
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