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MIT Tech Review Grace Huckins April 21, 2026
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# AI Could Help Scientists Solve Big Problems—But We're Not There Yet AI companies are betting their future on the idea that artificial intelligence will eventually help cure diseases like cancer and tackle climate change, which they argue would justify the technology's current environmental costs and limitations. Right now, AI tools can already assist scientists by pointing them toward relevant research and speeding up certain tasks, though we're still far from AI independently making major scientific breakthroughs.

AI companies frequently invoke the possibility of AI-enabled scientific discovery as a justification for their existence: If the technology eventually cures cancer and solves climate change, then all the carbon emissions and slop videos will have been well worth it.  Already, LLMs can assist scienti

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