Two commentaries converge on an epistemic risk of LLM adoption in science: Messeri & Crockett 2024 warn of a phase in which we produce more but understand less, and Bietti & Bangerter 2026 argue that outsourcing writing to LLMs risks decoupling writing from thinking.
E8 states the warning about a phase of scientific enquiry in which we produce more but understand less, and E17 states that using LLMs for scientific writing risks decoupling writing from thinking.
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“The proliferation of AI tools in science risks introducing a phase of scientific enquiry in which we produce more but understand less”
Curator's annotation · p. 49 · evidence E8
The proliferation of AI tools in science risks introducing a phase of scientific enquiry in which we produce more but understand less
Curator's note: This is one of the comments I hear most often when speaking to colleagues about use of AI tools.
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“it risks decoupling writing from thinking”
Full-text passage · no page number · evidence E17
Passage read from www.ebi.ac.uk, which may be a preprint rather than the published version.