MIT researcher: universities must prepare for AI outsmarting scholars in most intellectual work
nordicinst · x · 2026-10-14
MIT Statistics and Data Science Center director Sasha Rakhlin discusses how AI is reshaping academia:
- Universities should prepare for a near future where AI is smarter than all of us in many, perhaps most, aspects of intellectual work.
- AI is reshaping credit attribution, training, and collaboration in academia.
- He argues institutions should invest in open, long-horizon research, shared AI labs, and transparent workflows to advance science.
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