Mengdi Wang: AI will become lab infrastructure, turning science into a continuously learning system
MengdiWang10 · x · 2026-10-28
Princeton professor Mengdi Wang argues that AI may become as fundamental to scientific laboratories as microscopes, instruments, and computing infrastructure.
Rather than software scientists occasionally use, AI would act as an intelligence layer connecting observations, experiments, instruments, and decisions — making science itself a continuously learning system.
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