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AI predictions and the expansion of scientific frontiers: Evidence from structural biology

2026-04-07

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Artificial intelligence holds the potential to expand the frontier of scientific research, yet recent work has raised concern that it may instead narrow scientific attention to well-established areas. Here, leveraging the 2021 release of AlphaFold2 as a quasi-experimental opportunity, we provide field-level evidence that AI can redirect collective attention toward more novel research targets. Tracking 245,396 expe...

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Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research

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Literature Corpus work: c65672f0-d393-5d9e-8c55-556674872f1e
DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.06.716821

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