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Jeffrey Snyder
A Professor Says AI Beat Him at Science. Now What?
15 minutes Posted Aug 28, 2026 at 11:30 am.
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What happens when the tools you built start to outpace you? Astronomer J. Xavier Prochaska, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, reveals how artificial intelligence is transforming science at breathtaking speed — writing code, drafting research proposals, and uncovering exoplanets in decades-old data — pushing him to work "100 times" faster than ever before.