Two perspective pieces converge on the epistemic stakes of AI-assisted science: Messeri & Crockett 2024 warn that proliferating AI tools risk a phase of enquiry in which we produce more but understand less, while Bietti & Bangerter 2026 argue that outsourcing writing to LLMs risks decoupling writing from thinking.
E8 quotes Messeri & Crockett's 'produce more but understand less' warning verbatim and E14 quotes Bietti & Bangerter's 'risks decoupling writing from thinking' argument verbatim (explicitly labeled a Perspective).
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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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“arguing that it can risk 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.