AI Boosts Scientific Productivity but Brings Externalities Requiring Institutional Innovation
JMateosGarcia · x · 2026-08-03
AI offers significant short-term opportunities to increase scientific productivity, but it also generates externalities that must be identified and mitigated, requiring corresponding institutional innovation. Another major challenge is integrating and deploying the new insights emerging from the AI x science metascience landscape; if deployed responsibly, AI itself could help manage this complexity.
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