A survey of 1,260 quantitative social scientists fielded in early 2026 found that 81% have used AI chatbots in research, but only 20% have adopted coding agents that autonomously write and execute ana…
Google Research head Yossi Matias is developing two AI systems, Co-Scientist and ERA, designed to accelerate scientific discovery by generating hypotheses and automating computational modeling. The sy…
A research team at Google, co-led by Harvard Professor Michael Brenner, has developed an artificial intelligence system called Empirical Research Assistance (ERA) that automatically writes scientific …
According to a study published in *Nature*, TikTok's recommendation algorithm disproportionately served anti-Democratic and conservative political content to users during the 2024 election, regardless…
Development of AI "scientists" designed to accelerate research by automating tasks like hypothesis generation and data analysis. It references recent studies showing that teams of AI agents can boost …
According to a recent article, two new AI systems, Google's Co-Scientist and a system from FutureHouse, were introduced in Nature to assist researchers with tasks like drug retargeting. These "agentic…
Google today published Empirical Research Assistance (ERA), an AI tool that uses Gemini to write and optimize scientific code, in the journal *Nature*. The tool, which achieves expert-level performanc…
The proliferation of low-quality, AI-generated scientific papers is driven by a "citation revolution" that prioritizes quantitative metrics over genuine discovery. This incentive system encourages sci…