News Summary

• Venu Govindaraju is senior vice president for research, innovation and economic development at the University at Buffalo.
• Scientist should consult AI to come up with the best hypotheses to test, but then also use its power to recreate the surprise factor, he says.
• “Many of the scientific breakthroughs happened because of serendipity, because of some unexpected collisions of people and ideas and forums and so on, and we have to give that a chance,” he said.