What Stephen Wolfram thinks about AI and science

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21 Jul 2026

Our readingComputational irreducibility is ubiquitous, affecting essentially any system whose behavior is not obviously simple.

Their wordscomputational irreducibility is not just something that's in principle possible; it's something that (according to the Principle of Computational Equivalence) is at some level ubiquitous-and affects essentially any system whose behavior is not obviously simple.

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