Terence Tao to join fireside chat on the future of science at AIAS+ 2026 in San Francisco, Nov 5
yian_yin · x · 2026-10-30
The Chen Institute's AIAS+ 2026 symposium runs Nov 5–7 in San Francisco under the theme of "Discoverative Intelligence."
- Headline event: a fireside chat between Terence Tao and science-of-science researcher Dashun Wang titled "AfterMath: What Comes Next for Science?" Wang says his priors on the future of science have shifted significantly over the past month.
- Other program highlights: Yejin Choi on reasoning and discovery beyond scale, Jeffrey Ullman on big-data algorithms that aren't machine learning, AI for inflammaging and aging diseases, a Math 2.0 session, and the AI Prize award ceremony (speech restoration via brain-computer interfaces, the Therabot generative AI psychotherapy chatbot, AI-driven synthesis reprogramming).
- An after-hours mixer connects founders, researchers and investors.
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