The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is exploding across many branches of science. Between 2012 and 2022, the average proportion of scientific papers engaging with AI, across 20 fields, quadrupled (see ‘AI’s rise in research’), including economics, geology, political science and psychology1.
Hopes are high that AI can accelerate scientific discovery, because the rate at which fundamental advances are made seems to be slowing down: despite there being more funding, publications and…
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