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AI control and science - economists survey (October 2023)

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Do you think that it is useful for the scientific community to discuss the control of AI systems?

YES

AI and science - summary of biomedical scientists’ survey (July-August 2023).

96% of responders replied that it is useful for biomedical scientists to discuss the control of AI systems.

According to the responders, the advantages of promoting the development of transparent AI systems with the participation of the biomedical community are:

1. Improved Accuracy: Transparent AI systems can lead to more accurate outputs, which can benefit biologists and biomedical scientists.

AI and science - summary of economists’ survey (October 2023).

All responders replied that it is useful for the scientific community to discuss the control of AI systems.

Advantages of promoting the development of AI systems that are more transparent and involving the scientific community in control include:

1. Knowledge Sharing: Sharing insights across systems can improve the accuracy and limit the spread of misinformation, aligning with the goal of AI.

We have received the following perspectives about recent AI developments in science, including Large Language Models (LLMs) and specialized tools like AlphaFold, from computational biologists and bioengineers.

Andrew McCulloch is Director of the Institute of Engineering in Medicine and Distinguished Professor, Bioengineering, at UC San Diego. His lab uses multi-scale engineering approaches, including experimental and computational models, to help understand, diagnose and treat heart diseases.

            More transparency for AI models can help to avoid bias and to improve the ability to judge reliability of inferences and of generated data. LLMs have a valuable role in basic science; the single most important repository of scientific knowledge exists in the form of published papers, and the rate at which they are being published is increasing exponentially. Our ability to keep up with them is decreasing, and tools that allow us to read and search the scientific literature more quickly are going…