By Victor J. Drew
Publication Date: 2026-05-11 10:33:00
Artificial intelligence has crossed a threshold in the modern workplace. It’s used for everything from helping employees manage schedules to supporting financial forecasting. A similar shift is currently taking place in research laboratories.
National initiatives to accelerate the integration of AI into science are currently booming. These include the US Genesis Mission and South Korea’s AI Co-Scientist Challenge. However, despite clear benefits, we believe that these institutional initiatives neglect important issues that pose immense risks to scientific research.
Today, more than half of researchers use AI for work tasks, including reviewing scientific journals and designing experiments.
AlphaFold is an AI tool designed to predict the structures of proteins for scientific research. Developing the protein structures before their publication was incredibly time-consuming – in some cases taking years. The same tasks now take hours. AlphaFold was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize…
