The Reading Corner

Defensive Writing Is Creeping Into GPT-Edited Papers—And It’s Hard to Catch

Introduction: When GPT “helps,” it can silently weaken your claims If you’ve used ChatGPT (or a similar tool) to polish...

Oct 9, 2026 0

LLM Text-Detector Failure: Why Model Turnover Breaks AI Screening in Science

Scientific journals have started using AI-written-text detectors to screen submissions—quickly deciding whether a manuscript looks “human” or “AI-assisted.” The problem...

Oct 9, 2026 0

AI Help on Prolific Is Mostly Rare—But a Few Workers Do It a Lot

Online research platforms are the quiet engine behind a lot of modern science: psychology, economics, human behavior studies, and even...

Oct 8, 2026 0

Arctic LLM Abstention Benchmark: ArcticQA + ArcticAbstain

Introduction: why “I don’t know” is harder than it sounds When people say large language models (LLMs) could help science,...

Oct 8, 2026 0

AI’s Productivity Returns: Do They Flatten as Firms Use It?

Introduction: why “average AI gains” might mislead everyone There’s a common story about AI productivity: early users saw big gains,...

Oct 7, 2026 0

GenAI in Programming MOOCs: How Course Context Shapes Use

Introduction: What happens when ChatGPT meets real MOOC learners? If you’ve ever watched students struggle with a coding assignment, you...

Oct 7, 2026 0

Generative Search Can Misquote Environmental Papers—Abstract vs Full Text

Introduction: LLMs + environmental literature search, but are the citations right? If you’ve used an LLM to “find the key...

Oct 6, 2026 1

Grice Rules for VQA: How VLMs Handle Misleading Questions

If you’ve ever asked a vision-language model a question and thought, “Wait… that’s not what I meant,” you’ve bumped into...

Oct 6, 2026 0

Social Bot Detection After ChatGPT: Smarter, Faster, Safer

AI chatbots like ChatGPT didn’t just make conversations easier—they supercharged social bots. Suddenly, “automated accounts” don’t have to sound robotic...

Oct 5, 2026 0

Submit Content