The MIT said that because of the concerns concerning the “integrity” of a high -level article on the effects of artificial intelligence on the productivity of a laboratory of materials science, the document should be “withdrawn from public discourse”.
The article in question, “artificial intelligence, scientific discovery and product innovation”, was written by a doctoral student in the university economy program. He affirmed that the introduction of an AI tool in a laboratory of science of large but unidentified materials has led to the discovery of more patented documents and deposits, but at the cost of reducing the satisfaction of researchers with regard to their work.
MIT economists Daron Acemoglu (who recently won the Nobel Prize) and David Autor both praised the newspaper last year, with Highlight at Wall Street Journal He was “struggled”. In a declaration included in MIT announcement On Friday, Acemoglu and the Autor described the article as “already known and discussed in depth in the literature on AI and Science, even if it has not been published in any referee newspaper.”
However, the two economists said that they now had “no confidence in the origin, reliability or validity of data and in the veracity of research”.
According to the WSJA computer scientist with experience in materials science approached Acemoglu and the highly concerns in January. They expressed these concerns, leading to an internal examination.
The MIT said that because of the laws on the privacy of students, he cannot disclose the results of this review, but the author of the newspaper is “no longer at the MIT”. And although the announcement of the university does not appoint the student, both A pre -printed version of paper And the initial media coverage identifies the author as rich from Toner Aidan. (Techcrunch contacted toner hairstyles to comment.)
The MIT also said that he asked that the document be withdrawn from the Quarterly Journal of Economics, where it was submitted for publication and on the Arxiv preparation website. Apparently, Arxiv’s withdrawal requests are only supposed to come from the authors of an article, but put it said: “To date, the author has not done so.”
