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Contemporary academia often rewards conformity over intellectual risk-taking, limiting space for transformative ideas. This piece explores how AI could reconfigure peer review—shifting it from a gatekeeping mechanism toward a more pluralistic system that recognizes and supports innovative, high-risk research.
ChatGPT-5 marks a new chapter in artificial intelligence. But instead of the long-anticipated leap toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), the new model presents itself as an invisible orchestrator. Rafael Cardoso Sampaio examines how this internal logic undermines the foundations of academic integrity.
Sebastian Koth highlights the importance of scientific institutions for the establishing of public AI infrastructures.
In this Interview Jörg Pohle talks about generative AI tools and how they affect his research activities as well as what possible misunderstandings and fallacies in regards of using LLM’s are.
This article explores the evolving phenomenon of science communication in social media and the norms and values that shape these online spaces. Science communicators on TikTok share how they use generative AI to produce science-related social media content.
As generative AI applications in science proliferate they prompt a self-reflection on work routines in scientific knowledge production. At the same time, scientific institutions, publishing bodies, and funding agencies are confronted with both regulatory challenges and the task of promoting the use of generative AI in line with good scientific practice.
In this opinion piece Isabella Hermann reflects on AI and how the general perception of it is shaped by pop-culturel archetypes, represented for example in movies.
Sami Nenno takes a closer look at fact-checks and explains why they are useful and necessary.
In this interview Theresa Züger gives exciting insights about the risks and opportunities AI bears for research work and talked about tools her team is developing.
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