{"id":213828,"date":"2025-05-12T13:13:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T18:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/ai-tools-may-be-weakening-the-quality-of-published-research-study-warns"},"modified":"2025-05-12T13:13:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T18:13:56","slug":"ai-tools-may-be-weakening-the-quality-of-published-research-study-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/ai-tools-may-be-weakening-the-quality-of-published-research-study-warns","title":{"rendered":"AI tools may be weakening the quality of published research, study warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-tools-may-be-weakening-the-quality-of-published-research-study-warns3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence could be affecting the scientific rigor of new research, according to a study from the University of Surrey.<\/p>\n<p>The research team has called for a range of measures to reduce the flood of \u201clow-quality\u201d and \u201cscience fiction\u201d papers, including stronger peer review processes and the use of statistical reviewers for complex datasets.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosbiology\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pbio.3003152\" target=\"_blank\"><i>PLOS Biology<\/i><\/a>, researchers reviewed papers proposing an association between a predictor and a health condition using an American government dataset called the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), published between 2014 and 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence could be affecting the scientific rigor of new research, according to a study from the University of Surrey. The research team has called for a range of measures to reduce the flood of \u201clow-quality\u201d and \u201cscience fiction\u201d papers, including stronger peer review processes and the use of statistical reviewers for complex datasets. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}