(Apr 2024) This year’s STM Trends edition imagines a future in which AI has become an essential part of the fabric of research and scholarly publishing. We see a blended workforce with humans and machines working together to advance trusted research, building a vast network of knowledge that links articles to research data, experiments to code, authors to institutes and funders, and scholarly works to podcasts. Content is produced and consumed by both humans and machines, traditional peer-review is supplemented by automated checks, and trust is a quality that flows between nodes in the scholarly network.
But this future is not a technical utopia: Papermills and pirates attempt to exploit technology for their own gain, and fissures appear in the global scholarly network. And, for some, the world has just become too complex and it’s time to go back to basics. In this hyper-complex system, how do we ensure accountability, transparency, ethics, and equity? How do we preserve the Human Factor?
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