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AI can widen science — but only if institutions stop rewarding the already measurable
Guowei Huang is at the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
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Xiang Hu is at the China Life R&D Center, Beijing, China.
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Pengsong Zhang is at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
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Zhicheng Lin is at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.
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The use of artificial intelligence in science is producing a conundrum: individual researchers are becoming more productive, while the scientific enterprise as a whole is exploring a narrower range of ideas.
Will AI spark a scientific renaissance — or a diffuse monoculture?