Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Stephen Wolfram hosts an unscripted Ask Me Anything about the future of science and technology for all ages.

Originally livestreamed at: twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram

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00:00 Start stream
00:14 As AI becomes able to generate knowledge faster than humans can absorb it, do you think the future bottleneck of science will become discovery itself, or human understanding?
4:47 If the scientific method were invented today in the age of AI and massive computation, do you think it would look fundamentally different from the version created centuries ago?
16:44 Recently at Brazil, several paralyzed people regain movement again, using an injection, but only in recent fracture, did you think in the future, paralyzed people can walk again?
21:20 How will we teach the scientific method to students if real science is done with huge computational systems?
24:23 Could there be a future where the most important scientific experiments happen entirely inside computational universes rather than physical laboratories?
27:19 Will there be endangered forms of human thinking that we need to preserve, the way we preserve languages?
37:27 I've heard that if there were aliens a certain number of lightyears away and looked at Earth, they would see the Roman Empire, is it possible to use this theory to create a technology that does this for humans to look back on Earth's history and confirm ideas that are only theories?
52:48 Will future people spend more time in real worlds or virtual ones?
1:01:38 the flat earth idea is extinct for the most part
1:03:18 Will "made by humans" become a luxury label someday?
1:07:35 Thoughts on data centers in space?
1:10:18 one thing i realized that was interesting was that when i had to deal with realtors, 9/10 realtors all started using "Text Messaging", and only 1 of them ended up calling and ended up leaving a voicemail. so i think that people have gone away from verbally speaking, and have gone more towards communicating via text. or... they could be verbally speaking to their phones speech-to-text
1:13:16 Hello, I don't know enough about the value or the math behind this, but what do you think about Axiom Math, a Palo Alto-based startup building AI systems to mathematically verify whether computer code is correct and secure?
1:27:49 End stream

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