Pathologist's letter to Steven Strogatz: AI will surpass me, but don't panic
stevenstrogatz · x · 2026-10-13
A breast pathologist writes to mathematician Steven Strogatz after his Radiolab appearance: pattern recognition is the lifeblood of pathology, and he has little doubt AI will eventually classify tumors better than any human. Yet he urges against panic — AI may have solved Navier–Stokes, but its inscrutable solution is an opportunity to decipher the mathematics behind it. 'The point was never the solution.'
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