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AI tools speed up analysis, but scientific truths must be grounded in reality
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Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China.
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Your Career Feature captures the debate over artificial-intelligence tools used in research (see Nature 655, 1096; 2026). As an environmental scientist, I have watched my students transition from cautious early adopters of AI to being overwhelmingly reliant on automated modelling.
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Correction 11 August 2026: Two of the three authors on this Correspondence piece were accidentally omitted. The missing authors, Weishi Zhang and Yitong Han, have now been added.
The uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard rails