Nature Machine Intelligence
2026-08-26 00:00 UTC
By Oriol Pujol
AI-025-20260826-global-ai-ne-de8f2881
The epistemic debt of generative AI
Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01294-w When authors use generative AI in cognitive tasks, without spending time and effort to understand the output, a gap opens between what they present and what they can defend. This gap widens as further work is built on top, resulting in epistemic debt.
Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01294-w When authors use generative AI in cognitive tasks, without spending time and effort to understand the output, a gap opens between what they present and what they can defend. This gap widens as further work is built on top, resulting in epistemic debt.
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