Every paper from the last decade may need an errata, and PDFs won't cut it, says economist
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-12
Development economist Paul Novosad argues every journal article from the last 10 years will need an errata as AI reshapes research, and calls for thinking about what errata should look like in the AI era — an extra illegible PDF on top of each article won't be helpful.
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