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Father, husband, surgeon, cancer researcher. Technology dilettante, stochastic noise enthusiast. Lab Twitter: @BednarLab
Joined April 2017
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Everything came up Aces for our rockstar trainees presenting this weekend in San Diego #AACRpan26 We are so proud of you! @timofran1 @Pasca_Lab @LyssiotisLab @Fil_Bednar @RashmiJKumar
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MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students.
A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet.
Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle.
The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable.
The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust.
Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates.
The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.
The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.
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A warm welcome to Dr. Genevieve Boland - our incoming Chair of Surgery!
Dr. Boland is the 7th Chair of Surgery @MedicalCollege. We look forward to what's ahead under her leadership! #leadingtheway #knowledgechanginglife @gmboland
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I have quite a lot of thoughts on this..that won't fit in a tweet. Bottomline is that there are issues scientists in the US would love to improve - faster review, less grant writing, more stability and freedom to do risky science. The folks celebrating this doc are mostly../1
In response to @POTUS's call for a revival of America's scientific enterprise, today I’m releasing Science: A New Golden Age.
This report is a blueprint for renewing American scientific leadership for the 21st century.
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Replying to @_common_W_
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#PancreaticCancer on cover of @CR_AACR.
New study from @hopkinskimmel on fibroblasts regulating cancer cell lineage state.
Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts Promote Epithelial–Mesenchymal Transition and Classical to Basal Subtype Shift in Pancreatic Cancer
aacrjournals.org/cancerres/a…
Zlatan: “I don’t have followers, I have believers…” 🤣 EPIC @FIFAWorldCup @FOXSports
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The bitterest lesson for AI applications on bio & health is that the field is full of shitty benchmarks and shitty metrics. This is also a great reminder that gate keeping journal peer review is a joke.
Rigorous evaluation of medical AI is good for everyone, and we welcome it. Counter to a half-dozen independent studies from institutions such as the Mayo Clinic that were highly positive on OpenEvidence—a lone paper now purports to show that generalized AI beats specialized clinical AI (@UpToDate, @openevidence). The paper has a massive undisclosed conflict of interest and irredeemable methodological flaws.
Behind the scenes: The study authors run a competing in-house medical AI at their hospital, and asked OpenEvidence for an API to power it — including rights to build a "competing product" with OpenEvidence's own API. OpenEvidence declined. Then, this paper coincidentally appeared.
Point-by-point, looking closely at the datasets used in the study, the disingenuous and fatal flaws become immediately apparent 🧵.
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Interesting asymmetry in #USMNT's shape against Paraguay.
Play on the left, party on the right.
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People keep confusing predictive representation learning with causal discovery. Without perturbations, temporal information, genetic instruments, anchoring in sequence or strong biologically causal structural assumptions, there will be no causal model of gene regulation. 2/
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ANTONEE ROBINSON UNLEASHES THE STRIKE OF A LIFETIME 🤯
AN ALL-TIMER USMNT WONDERGOAL 🇺🇸
Tremendous talk by @macky_neal at our annual Moses Gunn Research Conference. Surgeons doing hard science and solving hard problems as leaders and parts of highly motivated and talented teams! Thanks for a great visit! @UMichSurgery
Who will be the Clint Dempsey in the @USMNT during this World Cup? Elite mentality indeed! @MenInBlazers
Every 11 years! In Monroe, MI.
Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.
Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.
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Now online in @CD_AACR: Asynchronous Evolution of Epithelium and Stroma Differentiates Precursor Lesions from Pancreatic Cancer - by Ahmed Elhossiny, Elana Fertig, Eileen Carpenter, @timofran1, @Pasca_Lab, and colleagues @UMICHpancreas @UMRogelCancer
Now online: Asynchronous evolution of epithelium and stroma differentiates precursor lesions from pancreatic cancer doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.CD…
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This was an amazing and incredibly damning experiment using Microsoft Copilot, by @adamjkucharski kucharski.substack.com/p/rea…
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New research from our team published in @CD_AACR shreds light on how PanIN lesions evolve into pancreatic cancer. This could help us ID people at higher risk of cancer or even potentially stop malignant transformation: michmed.org/AmVwg @Pasca_Lab @timofran1 @CD_AACR
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I have spent my entire life working on this and thinking about this for the past 4 years. I don't know what will happen in 20 years, but I can promise you that on the 5-10 year timescale, scientists are not out of their jobs. AI is going to massively accelerate the pace of science, increase productivity, let individual scientists make way more discoveries way faster, and is going to make science overall more fun. But the model is going to be collaboration between humans and AI, not replacement.
The key difference here between science and e.g. software engineering is that science is not verifiable in any rapid/convenient way (unlike software), unlike programming. We still need humans for their scientific taste.
Today we all lost our jobs.....
Three Nature papers showing that scientists in the conventional sense are obsolete
At least read the first one.... the AI replaced all things that the scientist does ....
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…