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By 2030 many scientific fields will have AI assistants comparable to today's coding assistants

“By 2030, we predict that many scientific domains will have AI assistants comparable to coding assistants for software engineers today.”

Epoch AIAI forecasting and trends research instituteSaid · Source: epoch.ai

Context: Epoch AI, "What will AI look like in 2030?" (report commissioned by Google DeepMind, Sep 2025).

How we judge it

Our interpretation: by 2030, AI research assistants are in routine use (comparable to 2025 coding assistants) in most major scientific fields.

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Stated probability
None stated
Specificity
1 of 3 (vague or hedged)

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