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Patient and caregiver knowledge as a driver of basic science

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By Boaz Barak, Naama Harari Uzan
| Nature Verified
Direct engagement with patients and caregivers can transform basic research by uncovering underrecognized disease features and guiding generation of hypotheses. Integrating structured patient input into early-stage research can help to align biological discovery with clinically relevant questions.
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It’s 2030 and we fucked up. How did it happen?

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By Boaz Barak
| LessWrong (30+ Karma)
[Linkpost to this. Loosely based on a lecture I gave in therecursiveconference with the same title. Don’t take “2030” literally¹ —it could also be 2035 or 2040. As always, opinions are my own and do not represent OpenAI or Harvard.] It is quite possible that AI will usher in a golden age for humanity.
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AI Is a Meteor. Don’t Be a Dinosaur.

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By Boaz Barak
| The Harvard Crimson Verified
If you’re in the Class of 2026, you likely started at Harvard in fall 2022. In November of that year, ChatGPT was released. The Washington Post described it as “easy to talk to, bad at math.” Fast forward to 2026, when ChatGPT solved a major open problem in mathematics that had stood for 80 years. From my vantage point as an AI researcher in both academia and industry, I see no sign of AI progress slowing down. If anything, it is accelerating.
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