Sgouralis, Ioannis [Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)]

Do We Really Need All That Data: From Data to Agency in Automated Microscopy

Microscopy is entering an era of automated laboratories and AI-enabled instruments, often justified by a simple narrative of automating experiments to collect more data and train better models. In this work, we argue that, for microscopy, this framing is incomplete and can be counterproductive.