https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-ai-can-help-find-scientists-find-a-covid-19-vaccine/

AI has gotten something of a bad rap in recent years, but the Covid-19 pandemic illustrates how AI can do a world of good in the race to find a vaccine. AI is playing two important supporting roles in this quest: suggesting components of a vaccine by understanding viral protein structures, and helping medical researchers scour tens of thousands of relevant research papers at an unprecedented pace. Over the last few weeks, teams at the Allen Institute for AI, Google DeepMind, and elsewhere have created AI tools, shared datasets and research results, and shared them freely with the global scientific community.

Oren Etzioni is the CEO of the nonprofit Allen Institute for AI, and a professor of computer science at the University of Washington. Nicole DeCario is Senior Assistant to the CEO at the Allen Institute for AI.