Sabine Hossenfelder: AI will mine hidden scientific discoveries before it replaces truck drivers
skdh · x · 2026-10-27
Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder responds to the observation that mathematicians and software engineers are being automated before truck drivers: driving is physical work, and physical products, manufacturing, and inevitable regulation take time — pure intelligence jobs are easier to replace, so coding and math face serious AI competition first.
She predicts many academic disciplines (from theoretical physics to economics) will be hit next. Huge numbers of undiscovered conclusions likely lie hidden in the scientific literature simply because no human could read everything; AI is about to pick that low-hanging fruit, potentially triggering a second scientific revolution and keeping the stock market excited. She also unfortunately expects the models most capable of scientific discovery to become increasingly restricted (text truncated).
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