As scientists use AI systems as a proxy for working with students, the future of scientific research itself is at stake.

An experimental history project helps clarify the promise and the danger of treating AI as a laboratory for the past.

"If the model appears to 'care' about a particular cue, can that cue be manipulated in a real fly and the predicted shift observed?"

As LLMs manufacture a form of scholarship, presentation doesn’t mean what it used to. Ranjit Singh looks at how this threatens the open-access research repository arXiv, how its founder is fighting to sustain its credibility, a...