Benjamin Lewin was the founding editor of Cell, the world's leading journal in biology. In the first half, he discussed the state of science, and such topics as the humane genome, gene editing, and AI. He believes AI has great potential as it can analyze large amounts of data beyond human abilities. However, with science, there's a basic principle that you need to understand what has been done in research and reproduce it. With an AI program, "which is, in a sense, writing itself, modifying itself, and you don't really understand how it works, how are y… Lees meer