MIT disavows doctoral student paper on AI’s productivity benefits | TechCrunch

MIT disavows doctoral student paper on AI’s productivity benefits | TechCrunch

MIT says that due to concerns about the “integrity” of a high-profile paper on the effects of artificial intelligence on the productivity of a materials science lab, the paper should be “withdrawn from public discourse.”

The paper in question, “Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation,” was written by a doctoral student in the university’s economics program. It claimed to show that the introduction of an AI tool into a large-but-unidentified…

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