AI won’t replace  biologists – it’ll just join the staff

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Her take on the future isn't scientists replaced by robots, but scientists working alongside AI coworkers who handle the grunt work, freeing humans to ask the harder questions. JENNIFER DOUDNA: There's a lot of discussion about AI and biology, a lot, right? And people are always asking me about this too.

You know, how is AI going to change biology? How is it going to change the genome editing? And my immediate answer is, well, it's certainly going to accelerate everything.