Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Will Artificial Intelligence Foster Plagiarism?
At the moment, little guidance, policy or oversight is available regarding technology, AI and academic integrity for teachers and educational leaders.
Beyond Human – Everyday Bots and AI
As I write this, I am using text-to-speech technology, a nifty online feature that enables the reader to listen to, rather than […]
AI Tool Guides Researchers to Coronavirus Insights
The big idea The scientific community worldwide has mobilized with unprecedented speed to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, and the emerging research output […]
The Monotony of Transcription: Who’s Revolutionizing the Process?
Transcribing can be a pain, and although recent progress in speech recognition software has helped, it remains a challenge. Speech recognition programs, do, however, raise ethical/consent issues: what if person-identifiable interview data is transcribed or read by someone who was not given the consent to do so? Furthermore, some conversational elements aren’t transcribed well by pattern recognition programs.
AI May Usurp the Market in Guiding Public Policy Decisions
Most institutions see the market as the only legitimate form of organization, but different visions towards public policy, some involving artificial intelligence, have been the subject of consideration from academics and politicians alike. Under what circumstances, and to what extent, could artificial intelligence replace the market as the end-all guiding force in crafting reasonable public policy? Brexit may play a leading role in the transition.
What Can We Afford to Forget If Machines Do Our Remembering?
Outsourcing our memories — or actually forgetting once-vital skills that no longer matter in our daily lives — has always been with humanity. But how does the drift to artificial intelligence reflect what’s always been the case versus what should be a special case?
Microsite Offers Look at Artificial Intelligence
In the latest of its monthly series of interdisciplinary microsites addressing important public issues, SAGE Publishing is offering free access to a suite academic articles that focus on artificial intelligence.
Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Peer Review and Publishing Itself?
The founder of StateReviewer outlines a future where humans are written out of the publication process by artificial intelligence. But is the goal of eradicating bias and other malignancies potentially opening the door to a new set of ills?
![Share Your Most Surprising Policy Citation for Chance to Win $500 [Closed]](https://www.socialsciencespace.com/wp-content/themes/conferpress/images/default_thumbnail-new-border.jpg "Share Your Most Surprising Policy Citation for Chance to Win $500 [Closed]")
