We are promoting an open dialogue among scientists that started with a focus on a complex biomedical problem (cell-cell communication) and now includes a discussion of the use Artificial Intelligence (AI) in science, because AI might offer the only path towards a solution of the most complex scientific challenges.

 

Previous research and discussions examined the collaborative process used by particle physicists, science  philanthropy , surveys of biomedical scientists and economists, and the history of science.

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The most recent contributions are:

• Interviews with experts, including some very well-known scientists and scholars. See a description of these contributors.

• A discussion of science incentives which suggested rewarding contributors by connecting them with potential mentors or collaborators. The scientific community can self-motivate a wide debate using both ideal aspirations and a career-promoting incentive. A list of participating mentors is included.

• A Roundtable on AI in science, which started with an in-person meeting and continues in the Discussion Forum.

• A plan to establish groups composed of young scientists and of scientific leaders to oversee this discussion.

• A collective history and reflection describing the origin of AlphaFold from datasets contributed by the scientific community (especially PDB) and from other scientific advances.

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Scientists and scholars are welcome to share ideas about AI in science in the Discussion Forum or using our contact information.

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COORDINATORS

Anindya Bagchi

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

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Giovanni Paternostro

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

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Joshua Graff Zivin

School of Global Policy and Strategy and Department of Economics

University of California, San Diego

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Silvia Vicenzi

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of California, San Diego

Chair of the UCSD Postdoctoral Association

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ADVISORS

Napoleone Ferrara

University of California, San Diego

2013 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

2010 Lasker Award

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Guy Salvesen

Graduate School Founding Dean

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

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Christopher Wills

Professor Emeritus of Biology

University of California, San Diego

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Søren Brunak

Professor of Disease Systems Biology at the University of Copenhagen

Research Director at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research at the University of Copenhagen Medical School