How Artificial Intelligence Shapes Science: Evidence from AlphaFold

We study how a frontier AI model affects scientific discovery by examining the release of the AlphaFold2 algorithm and its impact on structural biology and related fields of science. Structural biology is the field of science concerned with understanding the structure and function of proteins.

本研究以AlphaFold2算法的发布及其对结构生物学（structural biology）及相关科学领域的影响为考察样本，探究前沿人工智能模型对科学发现的作用路径。结构生物学是一门旨在解析蛋白质结构与功能的科学学科。