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AI for Science!
17 June 2026

AI for Science!

ChinaTalk

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AI will make ideas cheap. What does that mean for sicence?

Charles Yang is a fellow at Renaissance Philanthropies and writes about AI and science here: https://republicofscience.substack.com.

We discuss…


Why AI will crack math but not science, and what Mendel's peas sitting ignored for 60 years says about a model that's smarter than everyone



Why China never caught the West's lone-genius bug, and why that's about to pay off



Tools over ideas, from Warren Weaver's six instruments to the thousands at CERN who proved a Higgs boson three guys took home the Nobel for



How do spend a billion dollars to save higher education



AI, souls, and whether your Claude gets into heaven


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