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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.

Early Verdicts on Claude Science: Faster Workflows, But Gaps Remain

Early Verdicts on Claude Science: Faster Workflows, But Gaps Remain

AI giant Anthropic recently announced its scientific workbench, Claude Science. While scientists praised many of its features, they noted that its reasoning needs work.

Exploiting Large Language Models in Peer Review: Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks and Integrity Probes

Exploiting Large Language Models in Peer Review: Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks and Integrity Probes

Large language models are beginning to enter peer review. Yet this use creates a security problem: the manuscript being judged can also contain hidden instructions that shape the model's judgment.

Researchers Need Dedicated Tools, Not "off the Shelf" AI

Researchers Need Dedicated Tools, Not "off the Shelf" AI

Author surveys show researchers regularly turn to generic "off the shelf" AI tools Akhilesh Ayer argues for a more careful research-centric approach.

Universities Are Relying on AI-detection Software to Catch Cheating. How Well Do the Programs Work?

Universities Are Relying on AI-detection Software to Catch Cheating. How Well Do the Programs Work?

Technology companies say that their services can sniff out AI-generated writing, but their tools vary in technique and quality.

AI Promised to Democratise Academic Publishing - the Evidence Says Otherwise

AI Promised to Democratise Academic Publishing - the Evidence Says Otherwise

It was thought AI would level the playing field in academic publishing for non-native English speakers. A growing body of evidence to reveals the opposite.