Imagine Paying a Few Thousand Dollars for AI to Audit All Scientific Literature in a Field
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-20
An AI community post imagines spending a few thousand dollars to have AI review all scientific literature in a given field and output a list of everything factually wrong — calling it "a nuclear strike for most fields" and "Replication crisis 2.0." The hypothetical sparks discussion about using AI to mass-audit published research and expose unreliable findings at scale.
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