Shanghai high school students and top scientists discuss the next decade: the AI group first asks how to verify
On October 30, the 2026 World Laureates Forum · Future Scientists Conference was held at the Shanghai Lingang Center, where about 150 high school students and leading Chinese and foreign scientists discussed "the next decade of scientific breakthroughs." Students in the AI topic group tested whether model outputs could be reproduced by swapping the names in prompts and repeatedly asking the same question, and worried that as code writing and calculations are handed over to machines, people are losing their ability to check the math.
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On October 30, the 2026 World Laureates Forum · Future Scientists Conference opened at the Shanghai Lingang Center. About 150 middle school students from across the country sat down with leading Chinese and foreign scientists to discuss "the next decade of scientific breakthroughs." Middle school students share their own science stories at the scientists' conference. Leading scientists meet students face to face. Sharing session. After group discussions, students write their results on whiteboards. Group discussion. A girl talks with a scientist. In a 40-minute group discussion, the topics were as sharp as a small-scale academic defense. The hottest was the AI group—while others talked about "how to use it," they first asked "how to verify it": replace "James" in the prompt with "Alice" to see whether the model changes face; ask the same question repeatedly to see whether the answer can be reproduced. They also raised a heavier concern: with code and calculations handed over to machines, people are losing the ability to check their work.