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Commission Gears Up to Confront the Risks Generative Artificial Intelligence Poses to Science
AI Tools As Science Policy Advisers? The Potential and the Pitfalls

Scientists Are Trying to Teach AI How to Smell

Quantum Information Science is Rarely Taught in High School - Here's Why That Matters
Quantum Information Science is Rarely Taught in High School - Here's Why That Matters

Viewpoint: Will AI Help Big Tech Dominate Science?
Only a very few global actors like Microsoft, Google and Apple may end up dominating the AI market, due to their scale and market power. How this will shape the future of science, the source of AI's power, has only begun to be discussed.
Riding the Whirlwind: BMJ's Policy on Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Publishing
Riding the Whirlwind: BMJ's Policy on Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Publishing

Commission's Research Directorate to Develop a New Artificial Intelligence in Science Policy
Commission's Research Directorate to Develop a New Artificial Intelligence in Science Policy
If AI Becomes Conscious: Here's How Researchers Will Know
Many researchers say that AI systems aren’t yet at the point of consciousness, but that the pace of AI evolution has got them pondering: how would we know if they were? A checklist derived from six neuroscience-based theories could aid in the assessment.

Deepfakes and Scientific Knowledge Dissemination
Deepfakes and Scientific Knowledge Dissemination
Science misinformation have significant public policy repercussions. Artificial intelligence-based methods of altering videos and photos (deepfakes) lower the barriers to the mass creation and dissemination of realistic, manipulated digital content.

Use of AI Is Seeping Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect
Use of AI Is Seeping Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect
Ethics watchdogs are looking out for potentially undisclosed use of generative AI in scientific writing. But there's no foolproof way to catch it all yet.

Microsoft AI Suggests Food Bank As a "Cannot Miss" Tourist Spot in Canada

Governance of AI in Bio: Harnessing the Benefits While Reducing the Risks

Experimental evidence on the productivity effects of generative artificial intelligence
Science funding agencies say no to using AI for peer review
Concerns include confidentiality, accuracy, and "originality of thought".
Scientists Used ChatGPT to Generate an Entire Paper from Scratch - But Is It Any Good?
Beyond the Hype: How AI Could Change the Game for Social Science Research
Beyond the Hype: How AI Could Change the Game for Social Science Research

GPT-3 (Dis)Informs Us Better than Humans
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way we create and evaluate information, and this is happening during an infodemic, which has been having marked effects on global health.
European Research Integrity Code Updated to Reflect Advances in Artificial Intelligence
A new version of the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity has been published that includes guidance on artificial intelligence (AI), navigating EU data protection laws and how to approach changes to research impact assessments.