While AI may save researchers time and money, Nature reporter Rachel Fieldhouse explores the potential costs of growing reliant on these tools. Fieldhouse writes that scientists are increasingly using AI to save them time and money in their research, with early career scientists and researchers in the physical sciences most likely to be early adopters of AI. While one preprint suggested that AI may be linked to a productivity increase, Fieldhouse referenced a Wiley survey that reportedly showed a growing concern about errors made by AI and about topics such as data security, ethics, and transparency. “We need to enthusiastically embrace it but treat results with the sort of scepticism that we should treat all scientific results when they’re presented,” said Swinburne University of Technology astrophysicist Matthew Bailes.
