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As Scholars Use AI To Write Papers, They Raise Many New Questions

As Scholars Use AI To Write Papers, They Raise Many New Questions

Published by Jenni Sidey

In “What even is an author?,” Katherine Mangan and Shea Vance grapple with a troubling question that the increasing use of AI in scholarly writing is raising at universities: At what point does authorship even matter now in academia? Simon Goldstein A recent article in Philosophy & Public Affairs by University of Hong Kong philosophy prof Simon Goldstein illustrates the conundrum: Goldstein disclosed his use of AI in the article’s “acknowledgements” section and in a separate five-page report detailing how Claude contributed each step of the way. “The paper was an experiment in writing with AI,” he wrote “ — in how far Claude could go as, in effect, the Ph.D. student, with the author acting as something like a very generous Ph.D. supervisor.” After Goldstein told Claude the “basic idea,” it “wrote almost all of the prose in the paper,” he wrote. Goldstein told The Chronicle that he would have listed Claude as the first author and himself as the second had the journal allowed that. He did almost none of the actual writing, …

Burundians Seek Papers to Leave Kenya Despite Amnesty

Burundians Seek Papers to Leave Kenya Despite Amnesty

Published by Sam Flores

NAIROBI, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Hundreds of Burundians flocked to their ⁠embassy ⁠in Nairobi on Tuesday to get ⁠travel documents to return home, saying they feared violence even after Kenya ​announced a temporary amnesty for undocumented East Africans in the country. Many said they had faced threats after Kenyan ‌President William Ruto last week told ‌authorities to close down all small-scale businesses operated by foreign traders as that work should be ⁠left to locals ⁠only. The presidency issued a statement on Tuesday saying it would still safeguard ​the rights of registered foreigners to work there in other sectors – and give unregistered people 90 days to sort out their papers. Burundians at their embassy told Reuters they still wanted to leave, saying they ​doubted the amnesty would protect them. “The president has treated us like we are not human beings,” Habonimana ⁠Jacques, a ⁠Burundian motorcycle taxi driver, ⁠told Reuters.  He said ​amnesty had been announced as an afterthought. “Even if we decide to remain we won’t have security ​because most Kenyans are already ⁠harassing us.” Burundi’s …

OpenAI Wants to Talk About ‘The Federalist Papers’

OpenAI Wants to Talk About ‘The Federalist Papers’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Late last month, OpenAI launched a rather grand mission: nothing less than defending individual political freedom in an age of all-powerful machines. The company’s “Strategic Futures” team has styled itself, in a sense, as inheriting the task of America’s Founding Fathers: “We labor in service of the ideals of free expression and individual liberty that are enshrined in the humble parchment of the U.S. Constitution,” Dean Ball, the team’s leader, wrote in a new OpenAI blog post. (The post opens with a quote from James Madison in The Federalist Papers.) Ball worries that advanced AI could radically concentrate power in the hands of those who control it, displacing labor in ways that disempower humans. In an extreme scenario, governments will have no need to listen to their citizens if there are robots to wage wars and omniscient software to run the bureaucracy. Ball is interested in studying what new political institutions might be needed to avoid this fate. Many Americans—a majority of whom express distrust toward the AI industry, outrage about data centers, and fears …

Tracey Amon Asks Sandy Heller to Turn Over Papers Linked to Ex-Husband’s Art

Tracey Amon Asks Sandy Heller to Turn Over Papers Linked to Ex-Husband’s Art

Published by Jenni Sidey

New York’s Tracey Amon filed a request on July 25 in the US District Court for the District of Southern New York to subpoena art advisor Sanford “Sandy” Heller. She wants him to turn over documents for use in her lawsuits in Switzerland over the disposition of the assets of her late husband, Maurice Alain Amon, who retained Heller as an advisor starting in 2013. Heller has been described as “possibly the biggest art advisor in the world,” and reputedly works with Roman Abramovich and Steve Cohen. The heir to the company SIPCA, which makes inks used in printing currency, Maurice died at 68 in 2019 while on holiday in Saint Tropez. The filing puts his value at some $600 million in assets and business interests at the time of his death, and asserts that Tracey is looking for her rightful share. The request revolves around Heller’s valuation of the collection. Related Articles The two married in Hong Kong in 2008 “without signing a marriage contract on that occasion or later,” according to an exhibit. …

Broadcom loses court bid to suspend EU antitrust request for US legal papers

Broadcom loses court bid to suspend EU antitrust request for US legal papers

Published by Sam Flores

BRUSSELS, Aug 3 : Broadcom on Monday lost its bid to suspend a European Union antitrust request for U.S. legal documents protected by U.S. legal professional privilege in a case related to VMware, which it acquired in 2023, after an EU court sided with EU regulators. The U.S. chipmaker in May asked the Luxembourg-based General Court for an interim measure against the European Commission, which acts as the EU competition enforcer, after it was hit with a demand to present documents produced outside the EU. It said the request went against U.S. attorney-client privilege, which protects confidential communications between lawyers and their clients. In the EU, this status covers only communications between a company and its external lawyers but not in-house lawyers. The General Court, Europe’s second-highest, rejected Broadcom’s arguments. “It is for the Commission to decide whether a particular item of information is necessary to enable it to bring to light an infringement of the EU competition rules,” the judge said. “If the undertaking under investigation was itself able to decide which documents are, …

Papers: Argumentation and Surprise Are Best Ways to Do Good Science

Papers: Argumentation and Surprise Are Best Ways to Do Good Science

Published by Jenni Sidey

This article by Casey Luskin is republished from Science and Culture Today. A number of years ago I reported on a fantastic paper in the journal Science by a leading science education theorist, Jonathan Osborne, at Stanford. He found that students learn science best when they are able study both evidence “that supports … or does not support” a given scientific claim. The paper showed it is critical that students, when studying science, use arguments for and against given views: “Critique is not, therefore, some peripheral feature of science, but rather it is core to its practice, and without argument and evaluation, the construction of reliable knowledge would be impossible.” Now, a new paper in the journal Science & Education makes a similar argument. The paper, “A Critical Religious Education Perspective on Argumentation in Science and Religious Education,” notes that argumentation is a vital part of science education: Argumentation has become a central pedagogical strategy in science education and is widely used to foster critical thinking and conceptual understanding. An extensive body of research has contributed to the development of structured …

Olivia Wilde addresses the ‘traumatizing’ moment she was served custody papers on stage

Olivia Wilde addresses the ‘traumatizing’ moment she was served custody papers on stage

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Olivia Wilde has detailed the “traumatizing” moment she was served custody papers from her ex, Jason Sudeikis, while she was on stage at CinemaCon in 2022. During the April 2022 Las Vegas convention, the actor was presenting the trailer for her drama, Don’t Worry Darling, starring Harry Styles and Florence Pugh. However, she was infamously interrupted by a stranger, who handed her a manila envelope that was labeled “Personal and Confidential” and contained child custody papers from Sudeikis. Wilde, 42, reflected on the experience during Wednesday’s episode of Alex Cooper’s podcast, Call Her Daddy. “One of the most f***ed up things I went through, among so many, was that I was served papers on stage,” she said. “Obviously, it was incredibly traumatizing; there’s so …

‘Mexico, world capital of football’: Papers react to World Cup debut – Press Review

‘Mexico, world capital of football’: Papers react to World Cup debut – Press Review

Published by Sam Flores

PRESS REVIEW – Friday, June 12: Papers discuss Mexico’s “statement” World Cup win over South Africa and detail Raul Jimenez’s triumph. Also: young women in New York choose to live with nuns to save on rent. Finally, for the first time, scientists have mapped the enormous scale of subterranean fungi networks. After Mexico’s World Cup opening win, El País‘s México edition has a headline that says it all: “Mexico, world capital of football”. The paper says that El Tri, short for El Tricolor, broke its losing streak in the opening match. In another article, the paper also talks about the triumph of Raul Jimenez and the end of his World Cup goal drought. For the past three World Cups, Jimenez didn’t score. The New York Times’ sports edition, The Athletic, also writes about him. “First, Raul Jimenez survived. Then he thrived. And now he has done it at a World Cup”, reads the headline. Almost six years ago, the striker suffered a life-threatening skull fracture while playing against Arsenal. The Athletic says that “it’s been quite a journey” and that scoring for Mexico …

Ankle monitor, Meat slicer and George Washington hospital papers: These are the most unusual items left in Ubers

Ankle monitor, Meat slicer and George Washington hospital papers: These are the most unusual items left in Ubers

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more If you’ve ever left your phone in an Uber, consider yourself lucky – other riders have forgotten an ankle monitor, a meat slicer and even George Washington hospital discharge paperwork (and no, there is no further explanation on the latter.) Uber released multiple lists Tuesday, revealing the most bizarre, uncommon and valuable items passengers have left behind in honor of the rideshare company’s 10th anniversary. If weird, leftover lost items like pelvis implants, live fish and a Donny Osmond group picture pique your interest, keep reading. Some things, however, have never changed since Uber’s inception. Phones remained the most frequently forgotten item, with more than 1 million left behind. New York City once again earned the title of America’s most forgetful city on the …

Academics in Meltdown Now That They’re Responsible for AI Hallucinations in Their Research Papers

Academics in Meltdown Now That They’re Responsible for AI Hallucinations in Their Research Papers

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Even in 2026, there are still plenty of researchers who refuse to use AI to publish their research papers. Others do use the tech for tasks like sourcing journal articles for references, editing copy, or formatting citations — but they face pressure to verify every claim, since AI has a baked-in risk of contaminating their work with hallucinations. A vocal minority of academics, however, argue they should be able to use AI to write original research while remaining immune from any hallucinated claims or data that make their way into the final product. Last week, the open-source research repository arXiv announced that it was banning scholarly authors from the platform for up to a year if “hallucinated references” are found in their work. The rationale behind this should be obvious enough for any self-respecting academic: as arXiv computer science chair Thomas Dietterich wrote in his announcement, “if a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check …