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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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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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The vision of human-out-of-the-loop science fundamentally mistakes what knowledge production is. It aims at the production of, wait for it, knowledge: a thing that definitionally involves an epistemic agent or agents, unless you are theistic about it.
September 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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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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May 31, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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#Metascience Unit fellowships for people who want to think deeply about how AI is changing science.
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Only for UK-based research organisations eligible for ESRC funding. @ukri.org
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www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
Only for UK-based research organisations eligible for ESRC funding. @ukri.org
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Pre-announcement: UKRI Metascience AI early career fellowships
The UK Metascience Unit will fund a cohort of early career fellows to build our understanding of how the growing adoption of AI is changing the research landscape, including what metascientific, ethic...
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January 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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First, thanks to @richvn.bsky.social, who highlighted a tweet by Retraction Watch sharing an article advocating for AI to *replace* human-led peer review.
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November 27, 2024 at 9:08 AM
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