Church is much more excited about scientific AI (AI that predicts biological/physical outcomes) than language AI (LLMs that write in English), because reaching the next level of language understanding requires AGI/ASI which is very dangerous, while scientific AI can advance narrow objectives without requiring human-level general intelligence

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George Church

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I'm much more excited about scientific AI than I am about language AI... What worries me is that to get to the next level of language requires AGI or ASI.

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A billion years of evolution in a single afternoon — George ChurchDwarkesh Patel
Created: 8/11/2026, 6:40:03 AM

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