AI Reports · Harvard · 2026-10-14 · Blog / commentary
‘I don’t know if this is going to turn out well.’
In this Harvard Gazette interview, Michael Brenner, a Catalyst Professor whose role links Harvard with Google, discusses the role of universities in the AI era. He argues that universities cannot realistically lead LLM development but play a central role as arbiters of truth. He also says the world has been too quick to declare an LLM-assisted proof of a major open math problem to be true.