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Ai2 event highlights challenges in AI-assisted science

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At an Ai2 event marking an expanded collaboration with Providence Swedish, researchers discussed the hardest problems in AI-assisted science, including keeping systems steerable, grounded in human judgment and sound methods, and responsive to new evidence and experiments.

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    The hard parts of AI-assisted science

    At an Ai2 event marking our expanded collaboration with Providence Swedish, researchers explored the hardest problems in AI-assisted science: keeping systems steerable, grounded in human judgment and sound methods, and responsive to new evidence and experiments.

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