Princeton Prof estimates 80% of scientific literature is 'flat-out wrong', sees AI opportunity
ashajadeja · x · 2026-08-29
Princeton Professor Arvind Narayanan estimates that about 80% of scientific literature is 'flat-out wrong' or 'not even wrong' due to overcapacity and market pressure for grants. He sees a massive opportunity for AI-for-science tools: designing agentic interfaces to explicitly look for follow-up work that challenges cited papers, or using agents to auto-annotate pre-training corpora to flag challenged findings.
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