Consumer psychologists debate AI-assisted grounded theory, management scholars audit 353 computational-linguistics papers, and legal researchers argue that nobody is independently benchmarking the AI tools already in professional use.

Researchers quietly manipulated public datasets and handed them to frontier AI agents. About half the time, the agents reached the conclusion the 'fraudsters' wanted — plus AI reviewers at ICML, and what happens to teams when colleagues stop asking each other.

A new PNAS study built autonomous AI analysts and turned them loose on fixed datasets. They reproduced the dispersion of human many-analyst studies — and swapping the analyst's persona shifted the results, even among methodologically sound runs.

GPT-4 forecast the results of 70 real survey experiments almost as well as running them — and a new Science agent now runs biomedical studies on its own. What autonomous research instruments mean for your lab.