How AI can change science for the better

AI models have immense positive potential for many scientific fields, European University Association hears

As we enter 2024, there will be considerable focus on the value of artificial intelligence—of its potential to revolutionise computing, how AI systems might alter the way we work, and how it can impact culture and life itself. There will be debate on everything from becoming an AI-powered business to AI’s impact on ethical judgement. Its effect on scientific practice is certainly contested and will also be the subject of much debate.

Anna Scaife, professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Manchester, and one of the inaugural AI fellows of the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute of data science and artificial intelligence, has a clearer idea than most of what an AI future might hold.