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What a ‘Science' magazine experiment says about the future of AI in journalism, with Abigail Eisenstadt.

What a ‘Science' magazine experiment says about the future of AI in journalism, with Abigail Eisenstadt.

Update: 2025-11-06
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1131. This week, we talk with ‘Science' magazine senior writer Abigail Eisenstadt about her team's year-long experiment testing ChatGPT's ability to summarize research papers. We look at their methodology, the limitations they realized, and their main finding: that AI could “transcribe” scientific studies but failed to “translate” them with context. 

Read the report: https://www.science.org/do/10.5555/page.2385668/full/chatgpt_project_report_final.pdf

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What a ‘Science' magazine experiment says about the future of AI in journalism, with Abigail Eisenstadt.

What a ‘Science' magazine experiment says about the future of AI in journalism, with Abigail Eisenstadt.

Mignon Fogarty, Abigail Eisenstadt