Reflection: AI, Originality, and AGI

AI and originality

AI can support originality by accelerating exploration, offering alternative perspectives, and reducing routine cognitive load, but originality remains a human responsibility. Genuine originality comes from framing novel questions, making value judgments, and integrating insights across contexts—tasks AI can assist with but not independently own.

What is AGI, and how does it affect scientific research?

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) refers to AI systems capable of performing a wide range of intellectual tasks at a human level across domains. If achieved, AGI could dramatically accelerate scientific research by automating hypothesis generation, experimentation, and synthesis, while also raising concerns about epistemic trust, reproducibility, and the role of human judgment in knowledge production.