September 2025
The dilemma of AI-driven science
Imagine a future where the most important scientific questions are answered first by an AI, not by a human. Would that make the truths it discovers any less ours? Oriol Vinyals, VP of research at Google DeepMind, explores how far we're willing to go in outsourcing research to AI — and why it might be the only way to solve some of our most complex problems.