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AI's dual role in research production and evaluation sparks scholarly "arms race"

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A new paper published on arXiv explores the evolving relationship between AI in research production and AI in research evaluation. The authors argue that these two aspects are increasingly intertwined, forming an "arms race" where advancements in one area directly influence the other. The paper synthesizes existing literature to identify six key dynamics, including scaling research production, automating evaluation, manipulating evaluation processes, and developing defense mechanisms and policy responses. This dynamic co-evolution shapes the scholarly record and future research endeavors. AI

IMPACT Highlights the co-evolutionary pressures between AI-driven research creation and AI-driven evaluation, impacting the integrity and future direction of scholarly work.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a scholarly paper discussing AI's impact on research processes. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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AI's dual role in research production and evaluation sparks scholarly "arms race"

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Chenguang Wang, Ming Li, Adebayo Braimah, Chenrui Fan, Tuo Wang, Weijie Guan, Ruiyi Zhang, Tianyi Zhou, Dawei Zhou ·

    The Emerging AI Paper-Review Arms Race: Adversarial Co-Evolution in Scholarly Publishing

    arXiv:2609.07713v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative and agentic AI are reshaping both the production and evaluation of scientific research. These developments are often studied separately, as questions of how AI can produce research and how AI can review it. We argue that …

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