Economist Novosad: '100% AI-generated' papers are the real cancer, not AI-assisted writing
paulnovosad · x · 2026-10-23
Paul Novosad weighed in on the debate over AI in academic writing, arguing that AI-assisted work is quite different from fully AI-generated text — only the latter, in his view, is the real damage to scholarship. The take reflects increasingly polarized attitudes in academia toward AI's role in research writing.
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