MIT says a material on the effects of artificial intelligence on the productivity of a material science lab, due to concerns about the “integrity” of a high profile paper, should “withdraw from public conversation.”
The article under “artificial intelligence, scientific discovery, and product innovation” was written by a doctorate student in a university economics program. It claims to show that introducing the AI tool in the larger but unmanned content of the science lab resulted in more content and more patent filing, but at the cost of reducing the satisfaction of the researchers.
MIT economist Darwin Acimoglo (who has recently been Won the Nobel Prize) And David Autoor both admired this article last year, with that Autoor to the Wall Street Journal He was “floor”. In a statement included in MIT announcement On Friday, Acimoglu and Autoor have “already known and discussed in literature on AI and science, though it has not been published in any refrigerated journal.”
However, both economists said they no longer trust the “offering, reliability or authenticity and the truth of research.”
According to WSJMaterial, a computer scientist in January. He brought these concerns to MIT, which resulted in internal review.
MIT says that due to the laws of students’ privacy, they cannot reveal the results of the review, but the author of this article “is no longer in MIT.” And when the university announcement does not have a student name, both Printing version of paper And the initial press coverage identifies the author as Eden Toner Rogers. (Tech Crunch has reached Toner Rogers for comment.)
The MIT also says that it has requested the withdrawal of the paper from the quarterly Journal of Economics, where it was presented for publication, and the print print website Archives. Apparently only one dissertation authors are eligible to submit Archives evacuation requests, but MIT says “to date, the author has not done so.”