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When AI Designs Experiments Humans Can't Explain
There's a quiet crisis brewing in physics labs, and it has nothing to do with broken equipment or funding cuts.
9 min read·Mar 20, 2026

There's a quiet crisis brewing in physics labs, and it has nothing to do with broken equipment or funding cuts.

In a facility outside Riyadh, something walks that has never walked before.

You've had the moment. You're watching a demo, or you've just typed something into ChatGPT on a whim, and the response comes back and you think — okay, that's genuinely remarkable.
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