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The paper said that after an AI tool was implemented at a large materials-science lab, researchers discovered significantly more materials—a result that suggested that, in certain settings, AI could substantially improve worker productivity. That paper, by Aidan Toner-Rodgers, was covered by The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets.

The paper was championed by MIT economists Daron Acemoglu, who won the 2024 economics Nobel, and David Autor.

In a press release, MIT said it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”

The university said the author of the paper is no longer at MIT.

  • HubertManneEnglish
    42•5 months ago

    I feel 50% of research funding should be for reproduction studies.

    • @bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
      6•5 months ago

      Absolutely. It might be the janitorial work of “the academy” but that work is important.

      I’m actually not sure if the problem right now is funding that work or the unfortunate fact that there’s rarely any accolades for it. And “publish or perish” is still too true.

    • albert180Deutsch
      4•5 months ago

      Especially in Medicine when it comes to wetlab stuff

      • HubertManneEnglish
        5•5 months ago

        it would be a great way to fund early labs to trying to get on their feet.

        • albert180Deutsch
          3•5 months ago

          I guess most of the universities and big labs would be very opposed to this thanks to the dead corpses lying around in their caves