AI in Research
Coverage of artificial intelligence as it reshapes research practice and governance: journal and funder policy on AI-assisted authorship and disclosure, AI detection and its failure modes, new AI research tools, and the regulatory environment from the EU AI Act onward. A fast-moving beat where policy frequently changes faster than practice.
Beats in this category
- AI Authorship & Disclosure Policy
Journal, publisher and funder policy on generative AI use in manuscript preparation, and how disclosure requirements differ between venues — an area where policy is still diverging…
- AI Detection & Research Integrity
AI-generated text and image detection in submissions, the documented false-positive problems with detection tools, and the integrity disputes that follow from acting on them.…
- AI Governance & Regulation
Regulation affecting research use of AI: the EU AI Act, national AI strategies, model-transparency requirements, and text-and-data-mining copyright developments.…
- AI Research Tools
Launches and significant changes to AI-assisted research tools — literature discovery, summarisation, extraction, coding assistance — assessed for what they actually do rather than…
All coverage (16)
- MLRC 2026 Becomes an Official NeurIPS Track
NeurIPS 2026 has made the Machine Learning Reproducibility Challenge an official track, with TMLR-accepted papers presented in Sydney this December.…
- Thaler v. Perlmutter: What SCOTUS Confirmed
The Supreme Court declined to hear Thaler v. Perlmutter (March 2026). What the human-authorship rule now means for CRediT, ICMJE, and AI disclosure practice.…
- Poland’s 2026-2030 Ewaluacja Reform Moves Past Points
Poland is overhauling how universities are scored, replacing rigid publication-point quotas with a two-pillar model adding qualitative criteria.…
- Commerce Suspended, Then Restored, Foreign Access to Anthropic’s Fable 5/Mythos 5: The First AI Export-Control Action
Commerce cut, then restored, foreign access to Anthropic’s Fable 5/Mythos 5 over a jailbreak claim — what it means for research-security compliance.…
- ICML 2026 Desk-Rejects 497 Papers Over AI Reviews
ICML 2026 used hidden PDF watermarks to catch 506 reviewers using AI, desk-rejecting 497 papers tied to 398 of them amid a record 23,918 submissions.…
- UHERO Withdraws Hawaii Electricity Report After AI-Sourced Data Error
UHERO withdrew a Hawaii electricity-policy report in July 2026 after its author found an AI assistant had inverted a key solar-pricing trend from a Berkeley Lab dataset, unverified before publication …
- ALZAI Licenses Liver-Risk AI From Weizmann, Clalit
ALZAI Health took an exclusive, worldwide license to AI liver-risk tech from Yeda (Weizmann) and MOR (Clalit) — a royalty deal, not equity.…
- Study: 83% of High-Impact Journals Have AI Peer-Review Policies
A new Learned Publishing study finds 83% of high-impact journals have explicit AI peer-review policies, versus 75% of mid-tier titles.…
- AI Disclosure Gap: Policies vs. Actual Compliance
A PNAS study of 5.2M papers found 70% of journals have AI policies, but only ~0.1% of papers actually disclosed AI use.…
- NeurIPS 2026 Pangram AI-Detector Desk Rejections
NeurIPS 2026 desk-rejected 178 position papers (18.4%) via the Pangram AI detector, no appeal allowed. What is verified, what is disputed, and why it matters.…
- AI Detector False-Positive Controversies: What Researchers Should Know in 2026
A New York court reversed a student’s expulsion over a Turnitin false positive, and universities are switching AI-writing detectors off. The 2026 landscape.…
- AI-disclosure: comparing Nature, Cell, NEJM, JAMA, BMJ wordings
Five major journals’ GenAI disclosure wordings, side by side. What each requires, where they differ, and the practical implications for authors.…
- CRediT for AI-generated content: where the line is
When AI generated parts of a paper, which CRediT roles apply to the humans who prompted and verified? A working line between disclosure and contribution.…
- GenAI in scholarly authorship: the 2026 disclosure landscape
ICMJE rejects AI as an author; publishers require structured disclosure. A 2026 map of who asks for what, the hallucination problem, RAG, and watermark detection.…
- EOSC Federation governance: what changed in 2026
The 2026 EOSC Federation governance refresh: new node-membership criteria, the sustainability funding model, and how integrators should reposition.…
- Making sense of the EU AI Act for research administration
What the EU AI Act actually requires of research administrators, where the exemptions sit, and the practical compliance checklist for institutions in 2026.…
