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AI in Research: Real-World Stimuli, Synthetic Faces, and the Validity Question
Generative AI embeddings bring 50,000 real product descriptions into one experiment, AI-generated headshots expose bias against femininity, and PNAS asks whether AI-generated science has a validity problem.

Lille My
5 days ago4 min read


The Robot Reviewers Are Here — And Nobody Agrees Who Is Accountable
Science asks whether AI is ready for peer review, Nature asks who is responsible when AI helps write a paper, and a new PNAS framework brings causal inference to text and images.

Lille My
Sep 74 min read


AI in Research: What Generative AI Does to the Work Itself
New evidence from Strategic Management Journal and Information Systems Research on how generative AI reshapes innovation and collaboration — plus algorithmic evaluation, grounded theory with GenAI, and LLM language prediction.

Lille My
Aug 314 min read


Almost Every Biomedical Paper Now Shows Signs of AI — And the Skill Has Shifted
A new analysis puts LLM-assisted writing in nearly 90% of recent PubMed Central papers. Meanwhile, management scholars argue the valuable skill is no longer prompting AI — it's directing it.

Lille My
Aug 244 min read


Does AI Really Make You More Productive? The Evidence Just Got Shakier
A PNAS reanalysis shows a headline result on LLM-driven research productivity can be reproduced with random, inverted and pre-ChatGPT placebo treatments — plus AI agents that can't yet reproduce their own field's papers, platform AI policies that drive creators away, and LLM-simulated bank runs.

Lille My
Aug 175 min read


AI Is Auditing the Scientific Record — and Finding 75-Year-Old Mistakes
AI agents are fact-checking the published canon and turning up decades-old errors in papers and reference tables — while journals debate whether AI should be patching peer review or replacing it. Plus: the next Turing tests, generative AI as a causal tool, and a model predicting we'll 'do more, less well'.

Lille My
Aug 104 min read


Can LLMs Stand In for Human Subjects?
A Strategic Management Journal framework for running experiments with LLM-powered agents, a PNAS essay on whether research stays a human enterprise, and store cameras turned into an 'offline clickstream'.

Lille My
Aug 34 min read


57% of Papers Show AI's Fingerprints — But Can We Really Count Them?
A 7.3-million-article study says most published papers now show signs of LLM influence — and a new PNAS exchange argues the yardstick itself is broken. Plus: when AI teams don't need to coordinate, ML from 14 examples, and 500 years of art in latent space.

Lille My
Jul 295 min read


When AI Becomes the Method: Standards, Benchmarks and Who Validates the Machine
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.

Lille My
Jul 274 min read


AI in Research: Your Agent Believes Whatever You Feed It
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.

Lille My
Jul 204 min read


One Dataset, Many AI Analysts — and Any Answer You Want
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.

Lille My
Jul 165 min read


AI in Research: The Machine That Predicts Your Experiment — Before You Run It
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.

Lille My
Jul 113 min read


AI Now Designs Its Own Experiments — But the Proof Is Still at the Bench
New AI systems from Google DeepMind and FutureHouse generate hypotheses, design experiments and interpret results — but the evidence still comes from the lab bench. Plus deepfake face detection, deep learning for company dynamics, and the evolvable-AI threat debate.

Lille My
Jul 63 min read


When Do We Trust the Machine? Algorithm Aversion, and Governing AI in Scholarship
A four-study look at when humans take AI financial advice, a blueprint for governing AI in peer review, and new tools for doing inference with machine-generated variables.

Lille My
Jun 303 min read


When AI Becomes Your Variable: The Hidden Bias in AI-Generated Data
A new ISR study shows why feeding AI-generated variables straight into your regressions biases the results — plus a deep-learning ECG biomarker, agentic GenAI in operations, and meta-learning for consumer preferences.

Lille My
Jun 283 min read


AI in Research: Is It Quietly Deskilling Scientists?
Early evidence that AI tools may erode the skills they were meant to augment, the risk of a scientific 'monoculture,' an autonomous medical AI agent, and new work on AI-assisted creativity and algorithmic transparency.

Lille My
Jun 244 min read


AI and Your Skills: Crutch or Co-Worker?
Early evidence that AI may be dulling the skills it was meant to sharpen — set against a 791-person field experiment at P&G where AI worked like a teammate, plus a paradox in how AI democratizes knowledge.

Lille My
Jun 204 min read


AI in Research: Medical Agents, and Is AI Narrowing Science?
A 41-million-paper study on AI's double-edged effect on science, an autonomous medical AI that out-diagnoses physicians, and what AI agents mean for research.

Lille My
Jun 193 min read
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