A Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains how to use AI without letting it do your thinking for you

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Iranian AI specialists participate in a Text and Image processing competition during Iran's 2025 Tech Olympics at Pardis Technology Park, in Tehran, Iran, on October 28, 2025
A Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains why AI can create false confidence — and how to use it without outsourcing your thinking.

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Every Nobel Peace Prize winner in history

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Ana Corina Sosa, the daughter of this year's honoree, María Corina Machado, accepted on her mother's behalf.

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3 US-based academics awarded the Nobel prize in economics for their work on wealth inequality

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Nobel Committee announces the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Science during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 14, 2024
The Nobel committee announces the winners of the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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Who is Demis Hassabis, the DeepMind founder who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry?

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Demis Hassabis is the CEO of Google DeepMind.

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Google DeepMind CEO wins joint Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on AlphaFold

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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis called the award the "honor of a lifetime."

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Geoffrey Hinton, the 'godfather of AI' who warned of its existential risk, awarded Nobel Prize for Physics

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Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton has been referred to as the "Godfather of AI."

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31 Nobel Prize winners had ties to the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer isn't on the list.

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Nobel Prize winners Ernest Lawrence Enrico Fermi, and Isidor Isaac Rabi stand together talking in the late 1930s
Ernest Lawrence, Enrico Fermi, and Isidor Rabi all won the Nobel Prize and contributed to the Manhattan Project.

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Lise Meitner helped discover nuclear fission but never won a Nobel Prize for her brilliance despite 49 nominations

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Otto Hahn (left) won a Nobel Prize for the discovery of nuclear fission and would later downplay his colleague Lise Meitner (right) for her critical role in the discovery.

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The FDA just approved the first gene editing therapy for sickle cell anemia, but it'll cost $2.2 million per person

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The FDA approved the first gene therapy for sickle cell anemia.

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How Nobel economists spend their $1 million winnings

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A plaque depicting Alfred Nobel at the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony 2008 in Oslo City Hall on December 10, 2008 in Oslo, Norway.

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