MIT says that due to concerns about “integrity” or a high profile article on the effects of artificial intelligence on research and innovation, the document must “withdraw from public discourse.”
The document in question, “artificial intelligence, scientific discovery and product innovation”, written by a doctoral student in the University Economics Program. He said that the introduction of an AI tool in a large but not identified material science laboratory led to the discovery of more materials and more patent characteristics, but at the expense of reducing the satisfaction of researchers with their work.
MITon Daron Acemoglu economists (who recently won the Nobel Prize) and David Author was based on the newspaper last year, with Count the Wall Street Journal who was “stunned.” In a statement included in the MIT announcement on Friday, Acemoglu and author described the document as “already known and discussed widely in literature on AI and science, they even thought it has not been published in any arbitrated magazine.”
However, the two economists said that “they have no confidence in the disposition, reliability or validity of the data and in the veracity of the research.”
According to the WSJ, a computer scientist with experience in material sciences approached Acemoglu and was authorized with concerns in January. They brought these groups to MIT, which led to an internal review.
MIT says that due to students’ privacy laws, he cannot reveal the results of that review, but the author of the document “is no longer in the MIT.” And although the university announcement does not name the author, both a version of predimpression of the document and the initial press coverage identify him as Aidan Toner-Rodgers. (Techcrunch has contacted Toner-Rodgers to comment).
MIT also says that he has requested that the document be removed from the quarterly Journal of Economics, where it was sent for publication and the Arxiv Preimpression website. Apparently, only the authors of a document are supposed to have requests for retirement from Arxiv, but MIT says “to date, the author has not done so.”
