The Intersection of Science & AI in 26 Articles

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He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Dark Art – Quanta Magazine

Will AI scoop your science? Some researchers see a gloomy future – Nature

AI agents are not good at interpreting science. What can be done? - American Chemical Society.

Authorship responsibilities of scientists who use AI research agents – Frontiers

Award-winning microscopy image disqualified over AI use – Nature

What can chemists learn from how AI is shaking up mathematics? - American Chemical Society.

Secret watermark labels proteins as ‘made by AI’ – Nature

Why AI Isn’t Likely to Wipe Out Humanity With Bioweapons – Wired

AI saves scientists seven hours a week, Google paper finds – Research Professional News

AI can widen science — but only if institutions stop rewarding the already measurable – Nature

What if AI can make Science Better, not just Faster? - Bradley Max Segal

AI co-scientists are revolutionizing how research is done – Nature

AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues – MIT Tech Review  

The “synthetic validity” problem in AI-generated science - Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

Who is responsible when AI helps to write science? – Nature

Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? – New York Times

AI’s transformation of mathematics is a turning point for science – Economist

I was an AI skeptic — until I started using it to identify plants – Tom’s Guide

AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive – Science

As the coding boom fades, computer science grads focus on AI skills in choppy job market – Associated Press

In This Costa Rican Forest, Monkeys Come Face-to-Face With A.I. - New York Times

How AI is transforming the world of analytical chemistry – Chemistry World

Could AI help scientists with their paperwork? – Economist

Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts – Nature

Why funders should investigate if AI is making research more conservative – Science Business

AI can widen science — but only if institutions stop rewarding the already measurable - Nature

JOMO: The Joy of Missing Out

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One of the joys of aging (I’m 64) is to recognize that what used to be important no longer is. There’s no obsession now with social media, no need to follow fleeting trends; the latest movie or fashion style or restaurant or celebrity is unimportant. There’s a sense of peace that comes with pulling back from the zeitgeist and spending the day reading a library book, taking a walk, and preparing a meal. JOMO is real, and its benefits can be achieved at any age if the desire is strong enough.

Comment made by NYCtoMalibu on the New York Times article, “How to Make This the Summer of Missing Out”

AI Disclosure is Not Enough

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Even if AI disclosure were complete and reliable, it would answer the wrong question. What matters is whether the authors remained intellectually engaged, verified the output, and accepted responsibility for the work, not whether a model touched the prose. A disclosure can imply that using the tool is sufficient once declared, or that a paper without such a disclosure deserves greater confidence. But, that does not necessarily follow. Authors must think through and stand behind every claim, and readers should approach every paper critically, regardless of whether AI assistance is disclosed. - Harlan M. Krumholz, writing in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology

24 Articles about AI & Politics

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How governments worldwide are shaping what AI can say about politics – The Conversation

The Ukraine ‘Kill Zone’ Is AI’s Testing Ground - Wall Street Journal

AI is producing reality-bending midterm ads  - Axios

$137 Million in A.I.-Generated Ads Flood the Midterms - The New York Times

Chinese AI Tool Linked to Hacks in Japan - Wall Street Journal

Democrats eyeing the presidency can’t stop talking about this issue – The Washington Post

How A.I. Can Be Good for Democracy -  The New York Times

They told the world AI was dangerous. Now Trump’s allies are coming for them. - – The Washington Post

UK accuses China of using academics to spy on AI and other tech research – Reuters

Russia’s Latest Propaganda? A.I.-Generated War Songs - The New York Times

In the race for AI dominance, the U.S. relies on a surprising ally: China – The Washington Post

China’s Push Into A.I. Has Led to a Problem: Too Much Usage - The New York Times

Trump, Big AI go all-in together – Axios

Secret weapon or ‘slopaganda’? How AI is revolutionizing campaign advertising. – The Washington Post

Nvidia’s free AI model could push the UAE closer to the U.S.- Rest of World

U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact – The Washington Post

AI Is a Regulator’s Nightmare – Wall Street Journal

Trump and CEOs try to shed AI's toxic branding – Axios

Huge data centres rise at 'China speed' to power its AI ambitions – BBC

U.S. and China Balance A.I. Risks and Rivalry - The New York Times

Adults worldwide feel more positive on AI, poll finds – Semafor

AI-written speeches are taking over politics – The Economist

Politics has poisoned the AI debate. Don’t lose your head - – The Washington Post

Congress Crawls Toward Higher-Ed AI Regulation – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Inside the scramble for trusted AI cops – Axios

Using a photo to Predict Cancer Outcome

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Researchers say their AI model can predict whether someone will survive cancer based on a photo of the patient’s face. “We have the potential to develop multiple health biomarkers from a single face photograph with multiple different AI algorithms. We really feel like this is the beginning of a new, totally new field of medicine.” -Washington Post

31 Recent Articles about AI & Academic Scholarship

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Researcher who asked ChatGPT to help reorganize her study says when she told it to “continue,” it emailed 5 researchers for their datasets – Nature

As a journal editor, I’ve started using Claude to help find reviewers – Dynamic Ecology

Who Cares Whether Academics Use AI to Write? – Chronicle of Higher Ed

AI can help with academic research but doesn’t always get it right – here are some tips to check the information you receive – The Conversation

Google launches Deep Review AI tool to help researchers catch manuscript errors - R&D World

Did an AI or a human write that paper? New detector decides by examining its ideas – Science

AI use in STEM PhD dissertations reaches 29%, study finds - Chemical & Engineering News

Dutch minister criticises ‘fraud’ as ‘fifth of theses AI-written’ – Times Higher Ed

Award-winning microscopy image disqualified over AI use – Nature

AI in Medical Writing: Why JACC Does Not Require Disclosure - Journal of the American College of Cardiology  

Is this the ‘mathocalypse’? Why OpenAI’s latest results dump has left mathematicians in shock – The Conversation

As AI triggers a tsunami of submissions, computer science conferences impose caps – Science

Has AI Destroyed the Doctoral Dissertation? – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Authorship responsibilities of scientists who use AI research agents – Frontiers

Coping with the impacts of generative artificial intelligence on scholarly publications – Taylor & Francis

Editors are facing an influx of AI-written pitches, including at science publications like mine. What now? – Columbia Journalism Review

What can chemists learn from how AI is shaking up mathematics? - Chemical & Engineering News

Should AI Have a Role in Peer Review? – The Scientist

Against mandatory prompt disclosure in AI-assisted scholarship – Springer

The systemic breach of AI in academic publishing: Infrastructural failures and authorial misconduct across seven major publishers - Taylor & Francis

Secret watermark labels proteins as ‘made by AI’ – Nature

Replacing every part of the research process with AI will leave science recognizable but devoid of human judgment. – Undark

AI can widen science — but only if institutions stop rewarding the already measurable - Nature

AI ‘could filter out weaker grant proposals’, study suggests – Research Professional News

AI slop’ hides the conversations we should be having - Nature

U.K. funder uses ‘AI triage’ to reject grant proposals—leaving researchers dismayed – Science

We’re asking the wrong question about AI in research - Times Higher Ed

AI cannot replace human participants in behavioral research. - National Academy of Sciences.

AI bots like iLands are “flooding researchers with requests for money and time.” – Nature

Is AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research? – Med Page Today

AI Definitions: Steganography

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Steganography (pronounced STEG-an-ography, like the “Steg” in “stegasaurus”) - A method of tracking images by embedding an invisible code into the pixels that is invisible to humans but travels with the image throughout its lifetime. The marked images can be traced back to the original source with a high level of accuracy because the code is embedded directly into the image’s pixels. Because the watermarks are part of the image itself, they are nearly impossible to remove — able to survive common image-related manipulation such as aggressive cropping and taking screenshots of the image. If you’ve created an AI image recently, you’ve almost certainly used steganography without even knowing it. Most major AI image generation companies now use the tech. Companies are adding a poisoning application to these images. If someone tries to use them for deepfakes, the user will find them garbled and unusable.  

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AI Definitions: Supervised Training

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Supervised Training - In this type of AI training, the data is labeled by humans before it is given to the AI. For instance, the bot might be given a database of messages labeled “spam” or “not spam.”  Supervised learning is the most common type of machine learning and is used in voice recognition, language translation, and self-driving cars. Anything that a person can do in a second can also be performed by AI through supervised training. This is why jobs consisting of a series of one-second tasks are at risk of being replaced. Most of the present economic value of AI comes from this type of training. However, supervised training is both expensive and time-consuming.

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27 Recent Articles about How AI is Affecting Jobs

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To Get This Job at McKinsey, You’ll Need to Survive a Debate With AI First – Wall Street Journal  

AI is automating coding. So why are software developer job postings on the rise? – CNBC

Marketers Are Rebranding as ‘Engineers’ to Survive the AI Era - Wall Street Journal  

The Non-AI AI Jobs - The Atlantic

Would You Hire a Ph.D. Who Wrote Their Dissertation With AI? – Chronicle of Higher Ed

What Happens To Entry-Level Workers When AI Does The Junior Work? – Forbes

Fearing AI, workers go back to school seeking jobs that still need a human touch – Washington Post

Young Consultants Are Jumping Ship for A.I. Start-Ups – New York Times

AI Is Creating More Data. The Next Big Skill Is Knowing What To Do With It – Analytics India

The Most AI-Exposed College Graduates Are Entering Another Great Recession - Chronicle of Higher Ed

Nearly 1 in 3 College Students Are Changing Careers Over AI. Should They? – Inc

The Case for Saving Every AI Chat – Wall Street Journal

Elon survey finds Americans fear AI will hollow out the meaning of work – Elon University

Is AI killing jobs for college grads? Not yet, new study says. – Washington Post

I surveyed workers to see if AI had caused job losses and was surprised by the findings – The Conversation

China’s New Graduates, Facing a Dire Job Market, Must Also Contend With A.I. – New York Times

AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds – Ars Technica  

On teaching AI how you work - Karl Koch

Why Your Boss Wants to Make Sure AI Can Read Your Slack Messages – Wall Street Journal

Where A.I. Is Creating Jobs for Humans — For a While - New York Times

Will A.I. Still Take Our Jobs? – New Yorker

AI is being taught how to do your job. Will artificial intelligence replace us, or just change the way we work? – CBS News

How to Outsmart AI When It’s Tracking Your Workday – Wall Street Journal

AI Career Skills Move Beyond Computer Science – Inside Higher Ed

Women are missing out on the AI jobs boom – Axios

Fearing AI, young workers retrain for hands-on jobs – Hechinger Report

Many recent grads say AI is making it harder to get a job. Economists aren't so sure – NPR

Women are missing out on the AI jobs boom - Axios

21 Articles about AI & Data Privacy

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How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact – WIRED

Apate sends AI agents undercover to get scammed so they can gather fraud intelligence – Tech Crunch

Scammers used AI to impersonate me, a KUOW reporter. Here’s how to avoid such traps - KUOW

Anthropic warns AI models could soon copy themselves across home devices – CNBC

I almost fell for an AI job scam because the usual red flags weren't there. Here's how I caught it. – Business Insider

Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family – WIRED

Hackers Use Chinese AI Tool to Hit South Korean Banks, Exposing New Risk – Wall Street Journal  

Cybersecurity 101 still applies in the AI world – Axios

Can researchers trust that AI models won’t leak their ideas? – Science Business

Hackers who broke into OpenAI warn the AI industry has a security problem – Washington Post

Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People – 404 Media  

To Catch AI Cheating, Turnitin Wants to Monitor Students’ Keystrokes – Chronicle of Higher Ed  

They hacked a TikTok user’s camera, with help from free AI – Washington Post

The Personal AI Agent Horror Stories Are Rolling in – Business Insider

Think Your Anonymous Account Is Safe? AI Might Figure Out Who You Are – Wall Street Journal  

The AI hacking crisis is already here – Axios

Meta’s Muse is taking off. So are the privacy concerns – Fast Company

How to Maintain Our Privacy in the AI Age – Wall Street Journal  

AI has transformed the Pentagon’s aging networks into a national security risk – Washington Post

AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals – Business Insider

Consumers Muse Over AI Privacy Concerns - Wall Street Journal  

JOMO: The joy of missing out

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One of the joys of aging (I’m 64) is to recognize that what used to be important no longer is. There’s no obsession now with social media, no need to follow fleeting trends; the latest movie or fashion style or restaurant or celebrity is unimportant. There’s a sense of peace that comes with pulling back from the zeitgeist and spending the day reading a library book, taking a walk, and preparing a meal. JOMO is real, and its benefits can be achieved at any age if the desire is strong enough.

Comment made by NYCtoMalibu on the New York Times article, “How to Make This the Summer of Missing Out”

Internet-connected Devices are Vulnerable to AI Worms

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Small AI models are “months away” from developing the capabilities needed to replicate themselves across internet-connected devices in the home, such as smart ovens or Android TV boxes, and use their computing power to run themselves and spread to other devices, without relying on expensive data centers. A model that is too large to fit on one device could “split into pieces, or shards” and run across multiple devices. -CNBC