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T started as a fantasy, then as a promise – inspired by biology and animated by the ideas of physicists – and grew up to become a powerful research tool. Now, artificial intelligence has evolved into something else: a junior colleague, a creativity partner, an impressive but unreliable genius of wishes. This has changed everything, how we relate to data and truth, how researchers conceive of experiences and mathematicians think of evidence. In this special series, we explore how AI changes what science and mathematics means and what it means to be scientific.