Are Researchers Being Replaced by Artificial Intelligence?
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| author | Salatino, Angelo A. Scherp, Ansgar Kreutz, Christin Katharina Vahdati, Sahar |
| author_facet | Salatino, Angelo A. Scherp, Ansgar Kreutz, Christin Katharina Vahdati, Sahar |
| contents | A Nature survey from 2023 involving 1,600 researchers shows that scientists are ``concerned, as well as excited, by the increasing use of artificial-intelligence tools in research.'' This tension frames our central question: Are researchers being replaced by artificial intelligence? We argue that replacement is already underway-not as disappearance, but as a shift from researcher-as-creator to researcher-as-curator. As AI agents increasingly generate hypotheses, papers, and reviews, humans risk retaining responsibility while losing intellectual ownership. This article examines how AI is reshaping the scientific lifecycle and exposes the deeper danger: not that AI will fail to do science, but that humans may stop truly understanding it. |
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| spellingShingle | Are Researchers Being Replaced by Artificial Intelligence? Salatino, Angelo A. Scherp, Ansgar Kreutz, Christin Katharina Vahdati, Sahar Computers and Society Artificial Intelligence A Nature survey from 2023 involving 1,600 researchers shows that scientists are ``concerned, as well as excited, by the increasing use of artificial-intelligence tools in research.'' This tension frames our central question: Are researchers being replaced by artificial intelligence? We argue that replacement is already underway-not as disappearance, but as a shift from researcher-as-creator to researcher-as-curator. As AI agents increasingly generate hypotheses, papers, and reviews, humans risk retaining responsibility while losing intellectual ownership. This article examines how AI is reshaping the scientific lifecycle and exposes the deeper danger: not that AI will fail to do science, but that humans may stop truly understanding it. |
| title | Are Researchers Being Replaced by Artificial Intelligence? |
| topic | Computers and Society Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16294 |