Director Zhou Bowen of the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory: AI is underestimated in spawning new scientific fields and other aspects.

The 2025 Pujiang Innovation Forum will be held in Shanghai from September 20th to 22nd. Zhou Bowen, director of the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and chief scientist, stated that in the short term, AI is often overestimated in general problem solving and surpassing traditional prediction methods. However, its profound impact in promoting scientific cross-fusion, promoting new scientific fields, and achieving the formalization and validation of scientific theories is underestimated.