The AI in Business Podcast Transforming R&D with AI and Quantum Computing - with David Carmona of Microsoft
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Jan 29, 2026 David Carmona, VP of Discovery & Quantum at Microsoft, who applies AI and advanced computing to accelerate scientific research. He discusses AI enabling net-new discovery and reshaping R&D workflows. The conversation covers AI agents that reason over literature, compliance and traceability in regulated research, prioritizing discoveries for business impact, and how leaders can scale AI across organizations.
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AI Enables Net‑New Scientific Discovery
- AI can enable entirely new discoveries, not just speed up existing work.
- Applying AI to R&D lets organizations do things they could not do before across many industries.
AI Orchestrates The Scientific Method
- AI can orchestrate the scientific method end-to-end, from literature reasoning to simulation and learning.
- Coordinated specialized agents plus scientists can iterate observation, hypothesis, experiment, and learning at scale.
Rethink Workflows, Don’t Layer Tools
- Scaling AI requires rethinking R&D workflows, not just adding tools.
- AI-driven workflows will change hypothesis generation, simulation, experimentation, and analysis at structural levels.