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AI Doom Warnings Are Getting Louder. Are They Realistic?
Researchers are increasingly sounding the alarm that artificial intelligence could end humanity. But such doomsday warnings carry their own risks.
Hallucinated Citations Are Polluting the Scientific Literature. What Can Be Done?
What AI Asks of Open Access
As AI systems increasingly reason from the scientific literature, the integrity signals that make research trustworthy - open data, structured metadata, robust retraction processes - matter more than ever.
Major Conference Catches Illicit AI Use - and Rejects Hundreds of Papers
The papers' watermarks allowed organizers to detect use of large language models in peer review.
AI Policy is Penalising the Students Most Trying to Comply
Jim Dickinson presents findings from new research on students' use of AI – and argues the sector is punishing precisely the disposition it should be cultivating.
Preprints.ai: How Much of Peer Review Can We Automate?
If we were designing peer review from scratch for a world where powerful LLMs exist, what would we actually need humans for, and what could we comfortably automate?
AI Scientists Are Changing Research - Institutions, Funders and Publishers Must Respond
AI Scientists Are Changing Research - Institutions, Funders and Publishers Must Respond
The ability to automate the discovery process in some areas of scientific inquiry raises unanswered questions about how research should be conducted.
How to Build an AI Scientist: First Peer-reviewed Paper Spills the Secrets
How to Build an AI Scientist: First Peer-reviewed Paper Spills the Secrets
AI Scientist, an autonomous research tool, first released in 2024, has now undergone peer review, highlighting its strengths and limitations.
Australia Has Set New Expectations for AI Data Centres - They Should Serve the Public
Research Integrity is Locked into an Arms Race with Agentic AI Slop
Research Integrity is Locked into an Arms Race with Agentic AI Slop
Advances in agentic AI combined with increasingly large reserves of openly accessibly and machine-readable data are creating a perfect storm for the mass-production of AI authored research papers.
AI Agents Are 'aeroplanes for the Mind': Five Ways to Ensure That Scientists Are Responsible Pilots
AI Agents Are 'aeroplanes for the Mind': Five Ways to Ensure That Scientists Are Responsible Pilots
As artificial-intelligence systems take on more of the scientific workflow, the central goal should not be complete automation, but designing platforms that preserve creativity, responsibility and surprise.
A Large-scale Randomized Study of Large Language Model Feedback in Peer Review
A randomized controlled study demonstrates that large language model-generated feedback can make reviews more informative while enhancing reviewer-author engagement. Preprint available: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09737
Switzerland to Host the Global AI Summit 2027 in Geneva
Switzerland will host the next Global Summit on AI in Geneva in 2027. This was announced by the President of the Swiss Confederation, Guy Parmelin, in New Delhi at the AI Impact Summit in the presence of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
AI-generated Text is Overwhelming Institutions - Setting off a No-win 'arms Race' with AI Detectors
EU Ombudswoman Probes Use of AI to Evaluate Research Funding Bids
The groundbreaking inquiry follows a complaint from a Polish company that the use of AI to evaluate its EIC bid was unfair.
What We Lose when We Outsource Scientific Writing
Writing is often said to be thinking. Based on a study of scientific writing practices, this post analyses what is lost when academic writing is outsourced.
Why Write a Literature Review if AI Can Do It for You?
The potential for AI tool to assess and organise research literature presents an opportunity to rethink why they are undertaken in the first place.
AI “swarms” could fake public consensus and quietly distort democracy
A new Science Policy Forum article warns that the next generation of influence operations – coordinated campaigns designed to manipulate perceptions of consensus, credibility, and normality – may not look like obvious “copy-paste bots,” but like coordinated communities: fleets of artificial intelligence (AI) -driven personas that can adapt in real time, infiltrate groups, and manufacture the appearance of public agreement at scale.
Artificial Intelligence Tools Expand Scientists' Impact but Contract Science's Focus
Artificial Intelligence Tools Expand Scientists' Impact but Contract Science's Focus
Artificial intelligence boosts individual scientists' output, citations and career progression, but collectively narrows research diversity and reduces collaboration, concentrating work in data-rich areas and potentially limiting broader scientific exploration.
Pre-print available here: Artificial Intelligence Tools Expand Scientists' Impact but Contract Science's Focus
AI Could Make Scientific Overload Worse
Artificial intelligence is helping to advance science, but it could also add to stress on the research system by generating ever more papers and grant applications, an AI expert at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has warned.
Trio of Reports Say the EU is Betting Too Heavily on Generative AI
Three new reports have criticised the EU's artificial intelligence strategy, including its plan to spend €20 billion on enormous supercomputers known as gigafactories to train and run large language models (LLMs), the form of AI that powers chatbots like ChatGPT.
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