I agree. But in response, I'd also point out that AI, even in its current form, can help speed up our tasks: collecting data, verifying/cleaning, recognizing primary patterns, writing simple code to automate, conducting a critical self-conversation, drafting and refining our writing, etc.... Science requires a lot of mundane, tedious work, and AI can undoubtedly help us in this aspect. The idea that we are developing AI to replace our brains to make scientific progress for us is misguided, to say the least .