Leaders Examine AI's Limits In Science

At a Davos Imagination in Action panel, leaders including Joel Mesot, Joseph Aoun, and Daniela Rus discussed how AI is reshaping scientific research and its limits. Panelists cited AlphaFold as a breakthrough that accelerates analysis but does not by itself generate new biological understanding, and they highlighted gaps in spatiotemporal reasoning, the need for decentralized training, and calls for standards and alignment to guide AI's scientific use.