Nobel laureate Levitt: AI will erase the age gap among scientists, and in 30 years a young person may accomplish in one year what predecessors did in a lifetime

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Recently, the second International Conference on AI Scientists (ICAIS 2026) was held in Zhongguancun, Beijing. At the conference, Michael Levitt, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and professor of structural biology and computer science at Stanford University, delivered a speech reviewing how AI has changed his own research work and predicting changes in future scientific research.

Levitt predicted that by 2056, young scientists aided by AI agents might accomplish in one year the work his generation of scientists did in a lifetime.

He also said that this prediction may not be aggressive enough, and that future efficiency gains could far exceed 30 times.

This change may also affect the age advantage of scientists. Levitt pointed out that older researchers possess knowledge and experience accumulated over a long period, while younger researchers have more energy to explore new fields.

In the face of today's era full of drastic changes, Levitt particularly emphasized the survival rule of the biological world: "It is not the fittest that survive, but the most diverse."

Therefore, the safety of AI models also depends on diversity. In his view, the coexistence of multiple models such as DeepSeek, Kimi, Claude, and ChatGPT is precisely the guarantee for humanity to use AI safely.

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