> Communities that are willing to run AI over their knowledge base are going to develop a big advantage over those who don't

This is debatable.

I've seen countless "AI on knowledge base" projects and all have been on a whole not that much better than just using ElasticSearch. Some aspects are better e.g. discovery but some aspects are worse e.g. accuracy, speed when you are looking for something specific.

I would argue that simply having a knowledge graph in front that can provide related papers for a topic would accomplish the goals better.