MIT Disavoweda Viral Paper Claiming That AI Leadsto More Scientific Discoveries

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:03:07 +0000

No Provenance The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is distancing itself from a headline-making paper about AI's purported ability to accelerate the speed of science. The paper in question, titled "Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation," was published in December as a pre-print by an MIT graduate student in economics, Aidan Toner-Rodgers, and quickly generated buzz. Outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Nature, and The Atlantic covered the paper's a