Saw this metaphor by Terence Tao floating around about one of the drawbacks of using AI to solve hard math problems, and kind of have the same feeling for “vibe science” or “fully automated science” line of research in #AI4Science.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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AI has supercharged scientists—but may have shrunk science Analysis of 41 million papers finds that although AI expands individual impact, it narrows collective scientific exploration

An amazing paper from James Evans and team: Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus, now in @nature.com

Implications for epistemic diversity in science.

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www.science.org/content/arti...

With about 20k?? submissions to #ICLR this year (in comparison to 11.6k in 2025 and 7.3k in 2024), the AI-mediated "production-certification gap" is likely to widen.

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Showing a fictitious system for submitting manuscripts called "Nature Instant" showing bot choices for authors to choose from as initial AI-based peer reviewers. The bots are trained on real human reviewer data.

The future of peer review is here.

Introducing Nature Instant!

We've automated rejection so you can get disappointed faster. Because why wait 6 months for reviewer 2 when you can get roasted by an #AI in seconds?

Here is how it works.

#AI4Science #PeerReview #FictionScience #FiSci #AAAI #ScAISci

This.

Much of the "AI Scientist" community focuses on an instrumentalist rather taylorist approach to science. What about the goal of "knowing" and "understanding" the world?

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An important piece on #AI generated #preprints and why it's important to consider their impact on scientific ecosystem.

Some other important considerations related to this that are not covered in the article 👇

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Maybe you missed it, but science died 3 years ago..”Dead science theory”?

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Case in point the increasing prevalence of puzzle-solving & mop-up work around “Can GPT do X”. Has a “general purpose” instrument ever in the history become such a wide-spread object of study, disrupting what gets studied, who gets to & how?

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Mish-mish says my intro lacks purr-spective..

#SciencePlusAI #AIMediatedScience #ScAISci

Autoscience Automating AI research with AI - Revolutionizing the way AI research is conducted through intelligent automation.

“Meet Carl: The First AI System To Produce Academically Peer-Reviewed Research” now accepted at ICLR as a tiny paper.

www.autoscience.ai/blog/meet-ca...

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Well would you look at that.. “AI-mediated science”—a term I coined with my advisor @jevinwest.bsky.social —makes an appearance in the call by Sloan foundation. What’s that? You didn’t casually coin a term as a first year PhD? Hmm. no rush.. it’s not a race.
#IsThisSuccess #humbled #ScAISci #metasci

“Science is not a factory, churning out widgets or statistical analyses wrapped in text. For a factory, producing one more car per day is progress. For science, the goals are to understand our world—not to produce more artifacts that look like scientific papers.”

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Here is the starter pack for folks in science of science, meta science, STS, philosophy of science, history of science, economics of science, science policy, AI+science, and so on.

Feel free to nominate and self-nominate!

#SciSci #STS #MetaScience #SciPol #AI4Science #ScAISci

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Here is the starter pack for folks in science of science, meta science, STS, philosophy of science, history of science, economics of science, science policy, AI+science, and so on.

Feel free to nominate and self-nominate!

#SciSci #STS #MetaScience #SciPol #AI4Science #ScAISci

go.bsky.app/2R1E4TD