AI Reports · MIT FutureTech · 2026-10-17 · Blog / commentary
Can Academic Science Keep Up with the AI Frontier? Tracking the meteoric rise of AI foundation models in science and the constraints on future breakthroughs. March 12, 2026
Leaders of frontier AI labs predict AI will transform science, but FutureTech remains cautiously ambivalent about the scale of these claims. It holds that AI's impact on science is directionally correct, noting that AI model use across science has grown near-exponentially for over a decade.