What Peter Woit thinks about AI and science

@peter-woit · 17 positions · On ppll ↗

Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name.

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26 Jul 2026

Our readingIn an intellectually dead research field, feeding AI decades of meaningless work only produces more meaningless output.

Their wordsin an intellectually dead field, AI will just produce worthless junk. If what you feed it is decades of complicated and meaningless computations, it will just produce even more complicated and meaningless ones.

↗Requiem for a Field?math.columbia.edu 2nd of 3 in this piece