This is uniquely interesting to me because humongous amount of data are produced in HEP so automatic research (data analysis) in that domain is I think a huge enabler.
It makes trying out ideas much cheaper (in human time) and you could flag interesting results for humans to investigate further.
One deal breaker is because big data is so big in HEP, current operations are already very storage and compute bound. If only we can raise trillions of dollars in HEP and perhaps join force with ESA and build a fleet of data centers in space.