Messeri & Crockett 2024 and Bietti & Bangerter 2026 raise complementary epistemic alarms about AI in science: the former warn of a phase of enquiry in which we produce more but understand less, while the latter argue that outsourcing writing to LLMs risks decoupling writing from thinking, since scientific writing is itself a form of thinking.
E8 warns of a phase of scientific enquiry in which we produce more but understand less, and E14/E15 argue outsourcing writing to LLMs risks decoupling writing from thinking because scientific writing is a form of thinking.
Written by Kimi K3 via Ollama Cloud · 30 Sept, 22:48
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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 E14
Passage read from www.ebi.ac.uk, which may be a preprint rather than the published version.
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“scientific writing is not merely communication but a form of thinking”
Full-text passage · no page number · evidence E15
Passage read from www.ebi.ac.uk, which may be a preprint rather than the published version.