Can AI do fact-checking? A WIRED fact-checker fact-checks.
We're not taking the fact-checking powers of AI seriously enough. It's past time to start.
Some notes on the Nobel Prize hallucination that wasn't
AI False Claims Monitor
As the domain experts in data reliability in the topic of news and information, NewsGuard provides the leading red-teaming analysis for information reliability. AI models continue to face significant challenges in ensuring their models provide safe, accurate responses to prompts instead of spreading false claims on the internet or refusing to respond to topics in the news.
AI for science: What can it do? Can it do things? Let’s find out!
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More Than a Tool
What We Learned from a Year of Conversations About AI
Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? | Quanta Magazine
The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled.
Google Researchers Say AI Now Leading Disinformation Vector (and Are Severely Undercounting the Problem)
It’s much easier to produce AI-generated disinformation than it is to fact check it.
AI is An Ideology, Not A Technology
At its core, "artificial intelligence" is a perilous belief that fails to recognize the agency of humans.
Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: 3,749 AI Content Farm sites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Claims Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools
Coverage by McKenzie Sadeghi, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Virginia Padovese, Giulia Pozzi, Sara Badilini, Chiara Vercellone, Natalie Huet, Zack Fishman, Leonie Pfaller, and Natalie Adams | Last Updated June 23, 2026
I don’t think we are close to “AI scientists”
Today's AI agents are not designed to extract deep insights from new observations.
AI agents are checking the scientific literature — and spotting decades-old errors
The technology is proving adept at finding faults in decades-old papers and reference databases.
Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI
AI is junk food for the mind: easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you.
Briefing: X handed fact-checking to the crowd. Then it became the crowd.
Plus: A new image analysis tool and a list of companies selling AI training data.
"AI" is Automated Inequality
Tech bros still dominate the discussions about so-called "AI" with false claims. Even most "AI"-critical researchers spend much of their time meticulously debunking (always only a subset of) claims, leaving vast areas of the economic consequences of "AI" unexplored. (Even the "AI"-evangelist Economi
How do authors want to use AI for review?
A survey of researchers who compared AI-generated scientific reviews with journal-agnostic human peer review reveals that they overwhelmingly prefer using AI as a self-checking tool before submission rather than as a replacement for human reviewers. It encourages an “author-centric” model in which AI helps researchers improve their manuscripts before they are reviewed by their peers.
