Ethan Mollick: AI will spark two science revolutions — re-reading all literature, then speeding up discoveries
emollick · x · 2026-10-07
Ethan Mollick argues that after a brief but institution-eroding era of slop science, AI will bring two revolutions:
- Re-reading existing knowledge: Everything ever published will be re-read and re-judged in ways human scientists never anticipated.
- Faster discoveries: Novel scientific discoveries will start arriving quickly.
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