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An AI that reads all the scientific literature and finds where similar ideas are being independently explored in unrelated fields, and then introduces those researchers.
Credit: This idea was proposed by Norbert Wiener in 1961 in his book Cybernetics pg2: "...shared the conviction that the most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields. Since Leibniz there has perhaps been no man who has had a full command of all the intellectual activity of his day."
And also the inverse: helping you avoid doing things you don't want to do. For example, observing that you are over-reacting to an ambiguous email rather than giving them the benefit of the doubt. Or more seriously recognizing you are about to fall off the wagon with substance abuse and prompting you to reconsider. (e.g. mitigating the part of human nature described in Romans 7:15, "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.")