Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

Elkind Reflects on Her Role as JAIR Editor-in-Chief

Professor Edith Elkind serves as one of three editors-in-chief for the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
The Conversation

A new ‘AI scientist’ can write science papers without any human input. Here’s why that’s a problem

Scientific discovery is one of the most sophisticated human activities. First, scientists must understand the existing knowledge and identify a significant gap. Next, they must formulate a research ...
Science Daily

AI supercharges scientific output while quality slips

AI writing tools are supercharging scientific productivity, with researchers posting up to 50% more papers after adopting them. The biggest beneficiaries are scientists who don’t speak English as a ...

UC San Diego Ph.D. student’s project turns research papers into shareable code

Seemandhar Jain’s NERFIFY concept, which uses specialized AI ‘agents’ to convert published science into runnable code, will ...
The New York Times

Fraudulent Scientific Papers Are Rapidly Increasing, Study Finds

A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half. By Carl Zimmer For years, whistle-blowers have warned that ...
Nature

What counts as plagiarism? AI-generated papers pose new risks

This January, Byeongjun Park, a researcher in artificial intelligence (AI), received a surprising e-mail. Two researchers from India told him that an AI-generated manuscript had used methods from one ...