I agree with you, that’s the more likely threat.
But in the US, decades of 24/7 news cycle have terrified parents. Stories of horrific shit playing constantly. Even feel good shows like Oprah would have regular segments in messed up stuff.
Despite violent crime in the US being at all time low now, I think it’s embedded in our culture now.
Parents were and are much more terrified of strangers than cars is what I’m getting at.
Arguably. Maybe.
My understanding is the predictions of alpha fold are always verified with the slower, more accurate process - if the predictions from alpha fold showed something promising.
Its main use was to help identify directions to further investigate. Not to blindly take the protein structure it predicted.
So there might be initial bias in terms of the how possibilities are narrowed, but you can certainly use it to do real science.