Science is about to care far less about credit assignment, researcher argues
thisismyhat · x · 2026-09-08
thisismyhat argues that as AI becomes deeply embedded in research, science will soon matter far less about credit assignment — determining who actually contributed a discovery — than most researchers are comfortable accepting.
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