I agree that this has a potential to make people consider ignorance as a feature. AI is useful as a helper technology, the same way as telescopes or computers.

I agree that this has a potential to make people consider ignorance as a feature. AI is useful as a helper technology, the same way as telescopes or computers. But saying that it will discover new science is just a misleading idea. Even if AI is really capable of doing so (I don't think it is), it is similar to saying that a different species (not human) will now do science for us. How useful is that for humans? If that were even true, it would mean that humans will be left in ignorance and start to rely (without ways to confirm it) on the results provided by this new species. In other ways, the whole hoopla about AI doing science is nonsense on its core.