Collaboration is essential to science, yet collaboration across scientific communities is hindered by prejudice and miscommunication, which disproportionately affect scientists from disadvantaged and less-established communities. To illustrate these negative effects this essay will look at the informal peer review process, one of the first steps towards publishing a research article. Peer reviews are microcosms of scientific collaboration (and competition), and they are highly subject to miscommunication, bias, and prejudice. This essay recommends a novel solution to these problems using Artificial Intelligence (AI). Applied appropriately, several emerging AI capabilities have the potential to reduce prejudice and improve communication, making the peer review process more effective.
Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Scientific Collaboration?
Edward Kneller
A very interesting essay and topic.
But the question is: why is peer review necessary for the Open Science system?
The problem seems to me, first of all, that there is no system in the world for collecting and evaluating new scientific ideas. There are many articles, but who selects the ideas? This is where artificial intelligence can be used.
Edward Kneller I also write one or two sentences about AI idea for peer review. It is nice that you elaborate on this idea and I hope that FQxI and other will promote it.
Thank you for the feedback. I like the idea of a system for collecting and evaluating scientific ideas.
The journal Nature just published an article under their career news section, specifically suggesting anonymous peer reviews to reduce bias: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01772-w