# The verification bottleneck: why AI accelerates the wrong half of science

- slug: the-verification-bottleneck-why-ai-accelerates-the-wrong-half-of-science
- date: 2026-04-07
- category: Artificial Intelligence

Aristarchus had heliocentrism right in 270 BC. The ancient Athenians dismissed it. Stellar parallax was not measured until 1838. Michael Nielsen uses this 2,000-year gap to argue that AI is accelerating the wrong half of science.

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