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ArXiv Versus AI Slop: Will Capping Preprint Submissions Work?

ArXiv Versus AI Slop: Will Capping Preprint Submissions Work?

Major preprint platform tightens its rules to curb a surge of submissions, including those generated by artificial-intelligence tools.

Did an AI or a Human Write That Paper? New Detector Decides by Examining Its Ideas

Did an AI or a Human Write That Paper? New Detector Decides by Examining Its Ideas

Algorithm looks for clues about a paper's origin that text-based detectors miss.

Robot Pen Pals: a Systematic Analysis of Recent Trends in Scientific Correspondence

Robot Pen Pals: a Systematic Analysis of Recent Trends in Scientific Correspondence

This study identifies unusual growth in scientific correspondence after the widespread adoption of generative AI and suggests that AI may be contributing to publication inflation in a format that is citable, lightly regulated and often not peer reviewed.

AI agents are not good at interpreting science. What can be done?

AI agents are not good at interpreting science. What can be done?

As shortcomings of the agents become apparent, researchers are proposing strategies to help them improve their outputs.

Why Real Intelligence is Something More Than Optimisation

Why Real Intelligence is Something More Than Optimisation

If intelligence is merely optimisation then machines will outrun us. Kant tells us why human reason is so much more.

AI Presents Science with a 'Ship of Theseus' Problem

AI Presents Science with a 'Ship of Theseus' Problem

AI can replace each part of the scientific process, leaving the enterprise recognizable but devoid of human judgment.

AI Means Fewer Graduate Jobs - How to Make Sure They Still Exist in the Future

AI Means Fewer Graduate Jobs - How to Make Sure They Still Exist in the Future

As AI is making graduate trainee jobs an endangered species, a youth employment strategy has to be built around rewarding firms for sustaining graduate hiring.

AI Co-scientists Are Revolutionizing How Research is Done

AI Co-scientists Are Revolutionizing How Research is Done

Artificial-intelligence systems can generate hypotheses, design experiments and analyse data - but humans still need to decide what makes sense.

Who Owns the Time AI Saves? New Politics of Academic Labour

Who Owns the Time AI Saves? New Politics of Academic Labour

The future academic labour agreement may have to do something no previous faculty contract was asked to do. It may have to specify which forms of cognition belong to machines, which belong to professionals, which may be shared between them and where final authority must remain human.

When Your AI Knows You Too Well: Personalization, Sycophancy, and the Risk of an Intellectual Echo Chamber in AI-assisted Research

When Your AI Knows You Too Well: Personalization, Sycophancy, and the Risk of an Intellectual Echo Chamber in AI-assisted Research

As AI research assistants learn our preferences, they may also become better at mirroring our assumptions. Avoiding that outcome will require more than a better prompt.

Surprising AI breakthroughs raise soul-searching questions for mathematicians

Surprising AI breakthroughs raise soul-searching questions for mathematicians

Whether mathematics thrives or perishes in the age of AI depends on what it is that society values in the human intellect.

What Kind of Discipline is AI?

What Kind of Discipline is AI?

Universities are creating AI schools alongside disciplines such as logic, economics and communication without addressing their shared foundations. Mouhamdy M. Dahoud argues that this reflects an ontological gap, with current research funding and assessment taxonomies overlooking an entire category of science.

The Rise of Large Language Models and the Direction and Impact of US Federal Research Funding

The Rise of Large Language Models and the Direction and Impact of US Federal Research Funding

LLM use is reshaping how scientific ideas are articulated and evaluated in the US federal funding system, with implications for research diversity, transparency, and public trust.

When Physicians and AI Work Together, Who is Accountable? How to Lay out Medical Liability

When Physicians and AI Work Together, Who is Accountable? How to Lay out Medical Liability

A staging system based on how big a role AI has in patient care can help to identify who is responsible in cases in which care fails.