14/04/2026
🔥 What a start! The 2026 is underway and day 1 already left plenty to think about. What happens to the "space of exploration" when AI begins to drive the scientific process? We kicked off our Winter School at the Complexity Science Hub with James Evans, exploring not just how researchers use AI and how AI is making researchers more powerful, but what it means for science itself: how AI risks narrowing the space for exploration, blurring the line between rigor and noise, and raising questions about what happens to scientific quality when machines take on more of the process. The big question: Can we ever embed genuine curiosity into a machine?
The afternoon shifted gears: a hands-on workshop with Ljubica Nedelkoska, a fishbowl discussion moderated by Frank Neffke, and first steps on the group projects for our 23 participants.
Day 1 done, day 2 underway, and more to come, with Johannes Wachs, Liuhuaying Yang, Maria del Rio-Chanona, and Tom Kemeny still ahead.
🌟🌟 𝗣𝗦: 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗘𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄. 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: https://csh.ac.at/events/the-singularity-will-not-be-singular-complexity-or-collapse-in-ai-collective-intelligence/
This year’s is organized by Frank Neffke, Ljubica Nedelkoska, Xiangnan Feng, and Hillary Vipond.
🔗 Learn more: https://csh.ac.at/education/winterschool/