In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures
Sarah Demers, chair of the physics department at Yale University, sees the potential for large language models to both help and harm her field.
Sarah Demers, chair of the physics department at Yale University, sees the potential for large language models to both help and harm her field.
The short version
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What happened
Sarah Demers, who is co-authoring a policy statement about the use of AI in physics, has never typed anything into Claude or ChatGPT. Department of Energy selected 278 projects to fund as part of its Genesis Mission, meant to incorporate artificial intelligence into the scientific process.
Why it matters
One project will use AI to help physicists search for a vanishingly rare particle transformation — a muon becoming an electron — by controlling different aspects of the Mu2e experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago.
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