#research-ethics

#research-ethics

There's sloppy science, and there's AI slop science. In an ironic twist of fate, beleaguered AI researchers are warning that the field is being choked by a deluge of shoddy academic papers written with large language models, making it harder than ever for high quality work to be discovered and stand out. Part of the problem is that AI research has surged in popularity.

Science is a slaughterhouse. We rarely acknowledge the degree to which animal life underwrites the research that provides us with medicines, or the regulation that keeps us safe. Live animals were used in 2.64m officially sanctioned scientific procedures in the UK in 2024, many of them distressing or painful and many of them fatal. But the government's new strategy to phase out animal testing published earlier this month suggests that in the near future emerging technologies

There's a commitment that patients make to the clinical trials ... Here, you've broken a commitment to those individuals,

termination of federal grant funding was rare prior to 2025.

Mark and David Geier, a father-son duo, promoted controversial autism treatments and published discredited papers on vaccine harms, leading to accusations and sanctions from health authorities.

Through an analysis of computer-vision research papers and citing patents, we found that most of these documents enable the targeting of human bodies and body parts.

"In democracies, general elections and referenda can't regulate how AI is developed, leading to a significant disconnect between technology and public values".