An AI tool that scans reams of scientific literature for promising COVID-19 research could speed up the search for a coronavirus vaccine. The system provides an automated alternative to human review, which many COVID-19 researchers are starting to bypass so their colleagues can immediately provide feedback on their work. [Read: Drug discovery might be the best use of AI to tackle the pandemic] This approach sacrifices safety for speed, which can lead to low quality work reaching a wide audience. It also means that there are way too many papers on COVID-19 for humans to read. These issues led researchers from Northwestern University…

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