With the public fears of artificial intelligence (AI) potentially holding it back in adoption, scientists are pushing AI as a path forward for discovery and innovation, potential uses that could increase public trust and reduce skepticism.

“What could be a better use of AI than curing diseases? To me, that seems like the number one most important thing anyone could apply AI to,” DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told a London scientific forum this week, Axios reported.

Hassabis and John Jumper won a Nobel Prize for developing AlphaFold, an AI system that aids drug discovery by predicting the structure of proteins.

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