MIT's Rakhlin: universities must prepare for AI outsmarting their researchers
nordicinst · x · 2026-10-14
In an MIT News '3 Questions' interview, Statistics and Data Science Center Director Sasha Rakhlin discusses how academia should adapt to AI. He argues universities should prepare for a near future where AI is smarter than all of us in much of our intellectual work, and calls for redefining academic credit, nurturing reproducible research, funding open lab-wide collaboration, and building shared AI infrastructure across universities to accelerate science.
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