Demis Hassabis: AI will enable PhD students to match whole lab productivity
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Frances Jones
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Summary
Demis Hassabis, Nobel laureate and Google DeepMind co-founder, stated at the 2026 Nobel Prize Dialogue in London that AI will soon enable a single PhD student to be as productive as an entire laboratory. He argued that AI will free researchers from routine work to focus on higher-level scientific discovery, marking the dawn of an AI-driven era in science.
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Science is on the brink of an era of artificial intelligence-driven discovery
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