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Preserve research data for tomorrow’s AI-enabled integrity checks

Published: 10/13/2026, 12:00 AM

Search author on: PubMed Google Scholar Search author on: PubMed Google Scholar Search author on: PubMed Google Scholar Nature’s report on artificial-intelligence tools being used to detect long-standing errors in scientific papers illustrates that retrospective scrutiny is possible (see Nature 656, 278–279; 2026). Such checks would be more robust if the tools had access to the original files. Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors AI tools are spotting errors in research papers: inside a growing movement Is this idea from AI or humans? A detector claims it can tell