I’m excited to publish this guest post by Nick McGreivy, a physicist who last year earned a PhD from Princeton. Nick used to be optimistic that AI could accelerate physics research. But when he tried to apply AI techniques to real physics problems the results were disappointing.I’ve written before about the Princeton School of AI Safety, which holds that the impact of AI is likely to be similar to that of past general-purpose technologies such as electricity, integrated circuits, and the Interne...