Authors behind AlphaFold and other AI scientific tools urged wider, open access to advanced AI resources, arguing that the technology has already accelerated discoveries worldwide. They pointed to AlphaFold’s public database — used by more than 3 million researchers across 190+ countries — as evidence that open AI tools can benefit scientists in low‑ and middle‑income regions and catalyze applied research from disease to crop resilience. The authors highlighted early successes from AI co‑scientists and geospatial models such as EarthAI, and called for policies that expand access, training and infrastructure so universities and research institutes can leverage AI safely and equitably.