AI takes the lab by storm, but should it really? 

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By now every student has at least once used ChatGPT, and their teacher as well. But using the Artificial Intelligence (AI) in homework or using it for your scientific publishing are two different pairs of shoes. The heated debate over AI-generated research comes to a climax with a paper published at the Dutch publishing house Elsevier. How far can scientists actually take it?

We talked to three experts from the AI and Research field about the case. Our first interview partner is Simon Picard. He is the Network Direktor at Science I Business, which is a publisher occupied with bringing together the worlds of research, politics and industry.

We further talked to Zuzanna Warso, director of research at the open future foundation, a think tank for digital commons. Next to her work for the foundation, she is member of the advisory board of the Institute for the Ethics of AI at the Technical University of Munich.

Our last expert is Max Voegler, Vice President for Global Strategic Networks at Elsevier. He talked to us about how Elsevier handles the use of AI in Scientific Publishing:

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