Biologist mocks how Nobel Prize would pick 3 agents from millions by 2046
lpachter · x · 2026-10-06
Lior Pachter quips about a future where a Nobel-worthy discovery is made by AI agents: by 2046, the Nobel foundation would somehow need to select three agents from among millions, all of which rely on the entirety of human knowledge built over centuries — a pointed jab at attribution and credit in the AI-for-science era.
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