# Following the questions where they lead

**Published:** July 17, 2026
**Author:** Michaela Jarvis | MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
**Source:** MIT News — AI
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/following-the-questions-where-they-lead

Ever since she was a child playing on her family’s farmland in Wisconsin, Bailey Flanigan was guided by her own selective, yet wide-ranging, curiosity. Describing her young self as spirited and a bit unruly, she directed her energies to everything from building booby traps to…

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