Steve Hsu: physicists are embracing AI disruption far more openly than mathematicians
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-09
Cosmologist Will Kinney notes the theoretical physics community is responding to AI disruption completely differently than mathematicians. Physicist Steve Hsu amplifies this, invoking Wigner's recollections: physicists want to understand the universe and physics loves AI, recalling how Einstein and Planck once doubted the human mind could grasp quantum theory. The post also laments how scientific specialization cut disciplines off from each other.
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