One of the privileges of being on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge is seeing glimpses of the future, from advances in quantum computing and energy sustainability and production, to designing new antibiotics. Do I understand it all deeply? No, but I am able to wrap my head around much of it when I am asked to create an image to document the research. The joy of being a science photographer is that I must learn about the things I am documenting to produce communicative and trustworthy images, intended as a form of data, for the researchers who welcome me into their laboratories. But now, with the wide availability of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) tools, lots of questions must be asked. Will there be […]
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