Expert Comment: Computers can help us to do science, but they can’t understand it for us

Published on January 30, 2026

Dr Heloise Stevance, Schmidt AI in Science Fellow in Oxford University’s Physics Department, is a computational astrophysicist developing intelligent recommendation systems for sky surveys. In this article she discusses the ethics of delegating scientific decision making to our computers. 
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