{"id":208807,"date":"2026-05-04T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/uri-researcher-examines-how-ai-is-changing-the-language-of-science-college-of-the-environment-and-life-sciences\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:00:24","slug":"uri-researcher-examines-how-ai-is-changing-the-language-of-science-college-of-the-environment-and-life-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/uri-researcher-examines-how-ai-is-changing-the-language-of-science-college-of-the-environment-and-life-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"URI Researcher Examines How AI Is Changing the Language of Science \u2013 College of the Environment and Life Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/news\/ai-is-changing-the-language-of-science\/\">URI Researcher Examines How AI Is Changing the Language of Science \u2013 College of the Environment and Life Sciences<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/news\/ai-is-changing-the-language-of-science\/\">https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/news\/ai-is-changing-the-language-of-science\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-04 20:09:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"web.uri.edu\">web.uri.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nic Fisk, a computational biologist, highlights a shift in scientific writing where researchers increasingly attribute findings to computational systems instead of themselves.<\/li>\n<li>This linguistic change raises questions about accountability and responsibility in scientific practice, suggesting a relocation of responsibility from researchers to computational tools.<\/li>\n<li>Fisk\u2019s research, which includes an analysis of over 20 million scientific abstracts, shows that this shift began around 2016 and accelerated with the rise of AI and machine learning tools in research.<\/li>\n<li>Across various conferences and projects, Fisk emphasizes the importance of understanding scientific agency and the implications of language on how responsibility is assigned in scientific work.<\/li>\n<li>Fisk\u2019s work also illustrates broader themes on how academic norms shape the assignment of meaning and agency to subjects of study, highlighting the role of interdisciplinary collaboration in clarifying implicit assumptions.<\/li>\n<li>The emerging themes suggest that language used in scientific discourse, such as whether to say \u201cwe found\u201d or \u201cthe model found,\u201d fundamentally determine who is held responsible for scientific discoveries.<\/li>\n<li>Ultimately, Fisk argues that scientific identity is defined more by the questions researchers ask than by their technical skills, reinforcing the communal and human aspects of science.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URI Researcher Examines How AI Is Changing the Language of Science \u2013 College of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2130\/1000021935-copy.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208809,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208807\/revisions\/208809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}