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How I'm Using AI Tools to Help Universities Maximize Research Impacts

Artificial-intelligence algorithms could identify scientists who need support with translating their work into real-world applications and more. Leaders must step up.

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How's This for a Bombshell - The US Must Make AI Its Next Manhattan Project

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How's This for a Bombshell - The US Must Make AI Its Next Manhattan Project

A new essay on the rise of superintelligent machines pivots from being a warning to humanity to a rallying cry for an industrial complex to bolster American military defence

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Scientists Might Have Found a Way to Overcome One of the Biggest Problems with AI

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Scientists Might Have Found a Way to Overcome One of the Biggest Problems with AI

Scientists may have created a way to help overcome one of the biggest problems with popular artificial intelligence systems.

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Open Source

Why AlphaFold 3 Needs to Be Open Source

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Open Source

Why AlphaFold 3 Needs to Be Open Source

The powerful AI-driven software from DeepMind was released without making its code openly available to scientists.

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Horizon Europe

EU Missed Artificial Intelligence Targets Due to Horizon Europe Delay, Auditors Find

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Horizon Europe

EU Missed Artificial Intelligence Targets Due to Horizon Europe Delay, Auditors Find

The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has issued a stinging report criticising the European Commission's AI strategy, finding that the EU underspent on AI by €600 million because of a delay in 2021 starting Horizon Europe.

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Guidelines for the Use of AI in Science

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Guidelines for the Use of AI in Science

Artificial intelligence (AI) generates texts, videos and images that can hardly be distinguished from those of humans. Scientists are also increasingly being assisted by AI. Now, an international working group has developed principles for using AI in research to ensure trust in science.

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Inside the AI research boom

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Inside the AI research boom

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Sustainability

Will AI Accelerate or Delay the Race to Net-zero Emissions?

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Sustainability

Will AI Accelerate or Delay the Race to Net-zero Emissions?

As artificial intelligence transforms the global economy, researchers need to explore scenarios to assess how it can help, rather than harm, the climate.

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Is ChatGPT Corrupting Peer Review? Telltale Words Hint at AI Use

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Funding

Is ChatGPT Corrupting Peer Review? Telltale Words Hint at AI Use

A study of review reports identifies dozens of adjectives that could indicate text written with the help of chatbots.

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Opinion

"AI Is a Tool, and Its Values Are Human Values."

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"AI Is a Tool, and Its Values Are Human Values."

Deep learning and artificial intelligence pioneer Fei-Fei Li shares her thoughts on how to keep AI centered on human well-being.

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Report Highlights Strategies to Accelerate AI in Research

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Report Highlights Strategies to Accelerate AI in Research

There is ample policy and strategic action around generative AI and research but scant exchange of knowledge between the world's countries.

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AI Has a Place in Research, but Not in Evaluation of Horizon Europe Proposals, Commission Says

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ERC

AI Has a Place in Research, but Not in Evaluation of Horizon Europe Proposals, Commission Says

The European Commission wants to encourage researchers to use generative AI, but also warns of risks to the scientific process saying, "These tools could harm research integrity and raise questions about the ability of current models to combat deceptive scientific practices and misinformation."

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Democracy

Nobel Prize Scientists on AI, Democracy and Critical Thinking

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Democracy

Nobel Prize Scientists on AI, Democracy and Critical Thinking

Nobel prize-winning scientists and a world-leading AI researcher highlighted the dazzling potential of AI to support research, the contributions of science to democracy and the importance of critical thinking in the age of AI, at a Nobel Prize Dialogue held in Brussels this week.

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Top AI researchers say OpenAI, Meta and more hinder independent evaluations

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Top AI researchers say OpenAI, Meta and more hinder independent evaluations

Tech company policies have put a chill on independent AI research, says open letter.

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Environment

The Growing Environmental Footprint Of Generative AI

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Environment

The Growing Environmental Footprint Of Generative AI

AI runs on power-hungry equipment that uses millions of gallons of fresh water. Policymakers are weighing the costs.

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Policy

UK Offers EU Cooperation on Artificial Intelligence Policy and Copyright

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Policy

UK Offers EU Cooperation on Artificial Intelligence Policy and Copyright

The UK's artificial intelligence minister has offered to work with the EU on regulation, and said that London would likely take an approach to copyright in AI that was "reasonably close" to Brussels.

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Policy

What the EU's Tough AI Law Means for Research and ChatGPT

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Policy

What the EU's Tough AI Law Means for Research and ChatGPT

The EU AI Act is the world's first major legislation on artificial intelligence and strictly regulates general-purpose models.

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Ethics

The EU Just Passed Sweeping New Rules to Regulate AI

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Ethics

The EU Just Passed Sweeping New Rules to Regulate AI

The European Union agreed on terms of the AI Act, a major new set of rules that will govern the building and use of AI and have major implications for Google, OpenAI, and others racing to develop AI systems.

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Frivolities

Hallucinate, AI, Authenticity: Dictionaries' Words of the Year Make Our Biggest Fears Clear

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Frivolities

Hallucinate, AI, Authenticity: Dictionaries' Words of the Year Make Our Biggest Fears Clear

In a world of chatbots and influencers, Merriam-Webster, Cambridge and Collins are in rare agreement.

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ERC Board Tells Researchers There's No Hiding Behind AI

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Funding

ERC Board Tells Researchers There's No Hiding Behind AI

Funder warns researchers of accountability for 'good scientific conduct' in proposals if using artificial intelligence

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Gender

ChatGPT Replicates Gender Bias in Recommendation Letters

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Gender

ChatGPT Replicates Gender Bias in Recommendation Letters

A new study has found that the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT in the workplace entrenches biased language based on gender.

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Papers

'ChatGPT Detector' Catches AI-generated Papers with Unprecedented Accuracy

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Papers

'ChatGPT Detector' Catches AI-generated Papers with Unprecedented Accuracy

Tool based on machine learning uses features of writing style to distinguish between human and AI authors.

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Academia

Podcast - How Will ChatGPT and Generative AI Transform Research?

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Academia

Podcast - How Will ChatGPT and Generative AI Transform Research?

Nature editors Nick Petrić Howe, Magdalena Skipper, Richard Van Noorden and Yann Sweeney discuss how generative AIs are impacting science and what the future might hold.

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History

Race to AI: The Origins of Artificial Intelligence, From Turing to ChatGPT

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History

Race to AI: The Origins of Artificial Intelligence, From Turing to ChatGPT

Today's poem-writing AI has ancestry in punch-card machines, trundling robots and godlike gaming engines

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Ethics

Living Guidelines for Generative AI - Why Scientists Must Oversee Its Use

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Ethics

Living Guidelines for Generative AI - Why Scientists Must Oversee Its Use

Establish an independent scientific body to test and certify generative artificial intelligence, before the technology damages science and public trust.

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ChatGPT Use Shows That the Grant-Application System is Broken

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Funding

ChatGPT Use Shows That the Grant-Application System is Broken

The fact that artificial intelligence can do much of the work makes a mockery of the process. It's time to make it easier for scientists to ask for research funding.

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Commission Gears Up to Confront the Risks Generative Artificial Intelligence Poses to Science

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Commission Gears Up to Confront the Risks Generative Artificial Intelligence Poses to Science

With generative artificial intelligence poised to take the practice of science by storm, the European Commission is laying the ground to ensure the risks are avoided and the benefits delivered.

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Science Policy

AI Tools As Science Policy Advisers? The Potential and the Pitfalls

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Science Policy

AI Tools As Science Policy Advisers? The Potential and the Pitfalls

Large language models and other artificial-intelligence systems could be excellent at synthesizing scientific evidence for policymakers - but only with appropriate safeguards and humans in the loop.

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