With the arrival of ‘AI scientists’, it’s as well to remember that human wisdom, empathy and sheer messiness are as much part of progress as are process and efficiency. Does humanity need science? The Nobel prizewinner Max Perutz posed this question in a landmark essay1 in 1989. His conclusion, unsurprisingly, was ‘yes’. Had he lived to see the era of artificial intelligence, he might have inverted his framing of th... [5454 chars]
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