Designing AI for Disruptive Science - Asimov Press

Why scaling AI won’t automatically lead to paradigm shifts.

The Long Read Designing AI for Disruptive Science Why scaling AI won’t automatically lead to paradigm shifts. Asimov Press and Alvin Djajadikerta Mar 23, 2026 105 17 18 Share Article voiceover 0:00 -26:25 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Ella Watkins-Dulaney for Asimov Press. In On Exactitude in Science , the writer Jorge Luis Borges imagines an empire so devoted to cartography that its mapmakers draw a map as large and detailed as the empire itself. “In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map,” Borges writes, “inhabited by Ani

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