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The uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard rails
(www.nature.com)
this post was submitted on 29 May 2026
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"The poison is in the dose".
Also, what an astonishingly uncritical perspective. I think there are plenty of legitimate concerns to raise about LLMs in science, but there's a reason that researchers are adopting these tools. I suspect it's because there's a ton of rote work in the field (literature review, analysis, drafting a document...) and they're under great pressure to publish on an accelerating cadence.
“I had to drink the poison because I was under pressure”
Somehow, this doesn’t ring true. Are you defending scientific discovery, or are you defending corporate pressure? Or are you just defending poison? either way, this sounds like bullshit.
So now it’s OK just because scientists are suddenly lazy? You gotta be kidding.