MIT's Next Innovation Fellow Will Work on AI and Scientific Discovery
David Siegel, a computer scientist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, will serve as MIT's next Innovation Fellow during the 2026-27 academic year. Working with the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, he will explore how artificial intelligence can accelerate scientific discovery at the Institute and beyond, according to MIT News.
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Worth noticing where the AI work is housed: a college of computing, with the stated goal of speeding up science rather than shipping products.
Pushback
A fellowship is a bet on a direction, not a demonstration of one. The real question is what 'accelerate' ends up meaning in a lab.