AI will be superhuman at science regardless, and Europe can't opt out
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-16
Responding to mathematicians who argue AI could harm science by muddying credit assignment and scooping work, teortaxesTex contends AI will still be superhuman at science—even crude "search, no abduction" gets very far since humans are bad at breadth-first search—and Europe can't avoid it: it will use AI, just not its own.
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