Nature Comment: AI Triples Researchers' Output but Narrows Science

A Nature comment by four scholars reveals a core paradox of AI in science: individual researchers publish about three times more with AI tools, yet the range of ideas explored across science narrows. They argue institutions must stop rewarding the already-rewarded for AI to truly widen science.

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