As corporate investment eclipses public funding, the pursuit of scientific knowledge is increasingly guided by market logic. This shift is starkly visible in AI research, where the race towards AGI exposes how profit motives and national competition are quietly reshaping the norms and values of science itself.
The “orchestrator” design of ChatGPT-5 exemplifies how generative AI models, by becoming fluid services rather than static tools, make scientific replication impossible in principle, not just difficult in practice. Why is scientific publishing holding itself back? Pressure to publish in elite journals fuels politics, fragments fields like ecology, and weakens true peer review—could new tools help create a fairer, more objective editorial system?
In this study, Ben Shultz uncovers a sharp, politically driven collapse in academic communication about disinformation research following the 2024 U.S. election.
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.
Teresa Völker interviewed Jeanette Hofmann about the role of science communication in fragmented publics, the impact of social media on democratic discourse, and why scientists shouldn’t retreat from social media.
Institutions often applaud public engagement, until the backlash begins. Then what? At a Berlin workshop, researchers explored how to move from awareness to action.
Sebastian Koth highlights the importance of scientific institutions for the establishing of public AI infrastructures.
In this short analysis Sami Nenno argues that increased representation of scientists can improve the information quality of talk shows.
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.
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.