Comment by TheAceOfHearts

Genuinely uncertain about these claims but I think it's worth engaging:

Doesn't the existence of AlphaFold suggest that there's potential AI to help with biotechnology? Also, one of the AlphaFold creators started a biotechnology startup.

And for fusion, couldn't we build AI models to explore better magnetic containment techniques? As I understand it, the fundamentals and science behind magnetic containment of fusion is pretty simple, but the execution and design of the reactor(?) is the challenging problem.

As for advanced manufacturing, I've seen some research where evolutionary algorithms are used to design a part under specific constraints. Part of that problem space seems like it might benefit from AI research.