We are in the middle of a huge boom in artificial intelligence (AI), with unprecedented investment in research, a supercharged pace of innovation and sky-high expectations. But what is driving this ...

AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’ ...

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 ...

Nonsensical research papers generated by a computer program are still popping up in the scientific literature many years after the problem was first seen, a study has revealed 1. Some publishers have ...

The most widely used technique for finding the largest or smallest values of a math function turns out to be a fundamentally difficult computational problem. Many aspects of modern applied research ...

Journal editors and peer reviewers are being flooded with AI-generated papers that are almost impossible to detect.

Three Northwestern students—Shraeya Iyer, Xi-Aan Loh, and Nalin (Fai) Poungpeth—received honorable mentions in the Computer Research Association (CRA) 2026 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award ...

"So this means you expect every author to check every citation and make sure that every citation is real and accurate?" The post Academics in Meltdown Now That They’re Responsible for AI ...