When I was a Ph.D.
On the Value of Doing a PhD in the Age of AI
Many students who are just now embarking on a PhD in AI are understandably anxious. It feels like our field is zooming forward ever faster. Our clever methods are often surpassed before they are published. Our deep insights seem less critical to frontier lab progress. AI is automating aspects of the research process that used to require years of specialized training.
No. 030: Google Deep Review, AI research taste, AI in dissertations - The Hallway Track
The Hallway Track No. 030 - How AI is affecting the practice of science
Exploring AI’s growing role in scientific peer review
Stanford computer scientist James Zou discusses AI’s strengths at spotting errors and limitations in judging research significance.
No. 027: AGMAI advisory group, Millennium Problems for biology, autonomous research pipelines - The Hallway Track
The Hallway Track No. 027 - How AI is affecting the practice of science
Science that Compounds: The Need for A New Substrate for Research in the Age of AI
This paper is a perspective from Lightcone Research, an open-source initiative building tooling for scientific research in the age of agentic AI.
No. 023: Co-Scientist, Terminal-Bench Science, AI in peer review - The Hallway Track
The Hallway Track No. 023 - How AI is affecting the practice of science
How to build an AI scientist: first peer-reviewed paper spills the secrets
AI Scientist, an autonomous research tool, first released in 2024, has now undergone peer review, highlighting its strengths and limitations.
No. 021: AI peer review ensembles, Riemann zeta bound, VibeMathed registry - The Hallway Track
The Hallway Track No. 021 - How AI is affecting the practice of science
No. 014: Science's AI productivity paradox, Sakana clears peer review, AI proof search on open Erdős problems - The Hallway Track
The Hallway Track No. 014 - How AI is affecting the practice of science
No. 005: GPT-Rosalind, AI verification gap, Agent4Science - The Hallway Track
The Hallway Track No. 005 - How AI is affecting the practice of science
Shahan Ali Memon (@shahanmemon.bsky.social)
Researching {science of AI-mediated science, metascience #SciSci, #AI4Science, #GenAI, LLMs, agents, alignment, AI governance, misinformation in science} PhD @ UW. Visiting @ NYU & MSR Alum @ Carnegie Mellon Academic webpage: https://samemon.github.io
Which ‘AI scientist’ suits your lab? A guide for the perplexed
General-purpose AI tools for science, such as Claude Science, promise to accelerate research. But which is right for you?
AI for Research | Scite
Scite searches 280M+ scholarly articles to give you citation-backed answers and show you how every claim is supported or disputed.
No. 004: HAI AI Index, virtual cell automation, MCP for scientific literature - The Hallway Track
The Hallway Track No. 004 - How AI is affecting the practice of science
Will AI spark a scientific renaissance — or a diffuse monoculture?
Artificial intelligence’s ability to enrich science will depend not only on model capability, but also on whether researchers, reviewers and funders reward originality over speed.
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