Grady Booch pushes back on Sabine Hossenfelder: an AI description humans can't understand is simply wrong
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-10-20
Sabine Hossenfelder argued that scientific progress may require accepting descriptions of nature too complex for humans to grasp, and that AI is the way forward. Veteran computer scientist Grady Booch disagreed sharply: a description humans cannot understand is itself an indication that it is incorrect. A concise but pointed exchange on whether human comprehensibility should remain a requirement of science.
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