As the fall semester came to a close, Andrew Heiss, an assistant professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, ...

Anuja Uppuluri used to spend a lot of time scrolling social media apps dictated by algorithms designed to keep users glued to their screens no matter how mind-numbing the content. “I always had ...

An international team of researchers has released an artificial intelligence system capable of autonomously conducting scientific research across multiple disciplines — generating papers from initial ...

Will your favorite sycophantic AI helper be servile forever? Maybe not. New research from the AI safety group Palisade Research suggests that some top AI models could be developing “survival drives,” ...

What happened: A big new global study just dropped, and it shows that AI has pretty much taken over the world of academic research. Why this is important: But here’s the interesting twist: most ...

Abstract: In this article, we address the problem of learning optimal control policies for systems with uncertain dynamics and high-level control objectives specified as linear temporal logic (LTL) ...

Scientific fraud has existed for as long as modern science has; documented cases date back centuries. With wrongdoers profiting off deceptive practices, cases have been sharply rising. A new study has ...

Medical research plays a vital role in advancing healthcare, improving treatment, and informing public health policies. However, it can be difficult to understand a study or whether it is trustworthy.

A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half. By Carl Zimmer For years, whistle-blowers have warned that ...

Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world. By Gina Kolata Scientists know it is happening, ...

Apple’s recent AI research paper, “The Illusion of Thinking”, has been making waves for its blunt conclusion: even the most advanced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) collapse on complex tasks. But not ...