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First AI Tool to Detect Suspicious Peer Reviews Rolled out by Academic Publisher

First AI Tool to Detect Suspicious Peer Reviews Rolled out by Academic Publisher

Artificial-intelligence tool spots copied peer reviews, helping to uncover fraud in academic publishing.

Vibe Coding for Qualitative Researchers - Can AI Really Build Our Research Tools?

Vibe Coding for Qualitative Researchers - Can AI Really Build Our Research Tools?

As proponents of AI claim it will soon replace software engineers, what does this mean for qualitative researchers and research software development?

Comparing LLM and Expert Assessments of Journal Quality

Comparing LLM and Expert Assessments of Journal Quality

Some research funding systems rely on expert-assigned journal rankings to allocate resources. LLMs can approximate expert-assigned rankings with high overall accuracy, with most errors occurring between adjacent levels.

Responses to the AI Grant Flood Must Prioritize Fairness As Part of Excellence

Responses to the AI Grant Flood Must Prioritize Fairness As Part of Excellence

Research funding agencies are battling a wave of AI-assisted applications. Countermeasures should not entrench existing power structures.

Can ChatGPT Evaluate Research Environments?

Can ChatGPT Evaluate Research Environments?

Can Large Language Models (LLMs) support the process or validate expert evaluations? ChatGPT-4o mini scores correlated positively with expert scores in almost all 34 (field-based) Units of Assessment (UoAs).

Alan Turing Institute Not Providing Value for Money, Says UKRI

Alan Turing Institute Not Providing Value for Money, Says UKRI

Critical review calls for “significant change” at beleaguered national AI institute, as chair steps down.

Hallucinated Citations Are Polluting the Scientific Literature. What Can Be Done?

Hallucinated Citations Are Polluting the Scientific Literature. What Can Be Done?

Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

AI Policy is Penalising the Students Most Trying to Comply

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?

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?

Science Notes: Generative AI and Its Impacts

Science Notes: Generative AI and Its Impacts

Generative AI is now embedded in everyday tools. Science Notes looks at the urgent questions about bias, ownership, misuse, and environmental impact.

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.

NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking

NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking

Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves

A Large-scale Randomized Study of Large Language Model Feedback in Peer Review

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 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 is Threatening Science Jobs. Which Ones Are Most at Risk?

AI is Threatening Science Jobs. Which Ones Are Most at Risk?

Data-analysis and modelling positions are already becoming obsolete, but hands-on experimentalists can breathe easy for now.

AI-generated Text is Overwhelming Institutions - Setting off a No-win 'arms Race' with AI Detectors

AI-generated Text is Overwhelming Institutions - Setting off a No-win 'arms Race' with AI Detectors

Generative AI is enabling people to swamp all manner of institutions with documents, forms and messages.

Grant Proposals Drafted with AI Help More Likely to Win NIH Funding

Grant Proposals Drafted with AI Help More Likely to Win NIH Funding

But funding proposals to US agencies also tend to be more similar to previously funded projects if they are written or edited with the help of a chatbot.

Transportation Department Plans to Use AI to Write Regulations

Transportation Department Plans to Use AI to Write Regulations

President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to use artificial intelligence to write federal transportation regulations, according to U.S. Department of Transportation records and interviews.