Experts from across academia, industry and funding agencies gathered to discuss how generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is transforming science – the good, the bad and the unknown – at the Assessing and Imagining the Impact of Generative AI on Science Symposium, held March 3-5 on the Cornell campus.
In a series of panel discussions, participants considered both the incredible boom in scientific productivity this technology has enabled, and associated issues related to AI governance, equity, access and public trust.
This was a forward-looking event where diverse scholars from Cornell and beyond – including computer scientists, biologists, philosophers and social scientists – met to grapple with the impacts of GenAI across scientific research as a whole, said…