The uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard rails

The scientific community is adopting artificial-intelligence tools, especially large language models (LLMs), at an astonishing speed. LLM-assisted paper writing has drastically increased over the past three years 1 and researchers have sought to incorporate semi-autonomous agents into their workflows . However, the rapid and uncritical adoption of AI in science comes with significant risks 2 . …