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Where Do Scientists Think This Is All Going?

We asked some of the world’s foremost experts an impossible question. Amazingly, they answered.

I n the course of reporting this series on the impact of artificial intelligence on science and math, Quanta writers interviewed close to 100 experts — computer scientists, biologists, physicists, mathematicians and many others. Just about everyone reported seeing the impact of AI in their professional lives, some for an obvious reason: They had some kind of hand in building the technology itself. Artificial intelligence as we currently think of it appeared to erupt suddenly out of nowhere just a few short years ago, blanketing the world in a fine, disruptive ash.

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