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Can an AI feel pain? It can at least act like it does

By peering inside 25 AI models whose internal workings are publicly available, researchers found a pattern of activity specifically associated with the concept of pain. What’s more, when given the opportunity, some AIs switched off the pattern as a form of “pain...

Tennessee researcher heads to court amid claims of theft, forgery and revenge

In May 2025, Tennessee authorities were preparing to arrest a university math professor for allegedly soliciting university donations from his students and pocketing the money. As state investigators closed in, the professor, Don Hong, tried to get revenge against a...

U.K. funder uses ‘AI triage’ to reject grant proposals—leaving researchers dismayed

When forensic linguist Claire Hardaker’s team sent off a grant proposal on the risks of trusting artificial intelligence (AI) models in voice analysis, the Lancaster University researchers assumed it would be read by at least one person knowledgeable about the topic....

Elsevier journal retracts 100+ papers for authorship issues, editor conflicts of interest

Science of the Total Environment (STOTEN) has retracted 165 papers this year, most for “suspicious” changes in authorship or editorial conflicts of interest. The retractions have come after STOTEN was delisted from Clarivate’s Web of Science in November, 2026 after...

Misconduct case dropped against AI expert after claims of AI use in recent book

The author, Virginia Dignum, a professor in responsible AI at Umeå University, denied references in her book The AI Paradox were fabricated and said she made “ordinary editing mistakes.” Frank Drewes, head of the computing science department at Umeå University, told...

CEO of AI company loses paper on cognitive impact of generative AI

The April, 2026 paper, published in Technology, Mind, and Behavior, which is published by the American Psychological Association (APA), purported to describe the results of a survey of 1,923 adults recruited online to perform AI-assisted tasks. Experts in the field...

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Can an AI feel pain? It can at least act like it does

By peering inside 25 AI models whose internal workings are publicly available, researchers found a pattern of activity specifically associated with the concept of pain. What’s more, when given the opportunity, some AIs switched off the pattern as a form of “pain...

Tennessee researcher heads to court amid claims of theft, forgery and revenge

In May 2025, Tennessee authorities were preparing to arrest a university math professor for allegedly soliciting university donations from his students and pocketing the money. As state investigators closed in, the professor, Don Hong, tried to get revenge against a...

U.K. funder uses ‘AI triage’ to reject grant proposals—leaving researchers dismayed

When forensic linguist Claire Hardaker’s team sent off a grant proposal on the risks of trusting artificial intelligence (AI) models in voice analysis, the Lancaster University researchers assumed it would be read by at least one person knowledgeable about the topic....

Elsevier journal retracts 100+ papers for authorship issues, editor conflicts of interest

Science of the Total Environment (STOTEN) has retracted 165 papers this year, most for “suspicious” changes in authorship or editorial conflicts of interest. The retractions have come after STOTEN was delisted from Clarivate’s Web of Science in November, 2026 after...

Misconduct case dropped against AI expert after claims of AI use in recent book

The author, Virginia Dignum, a professor in responsible AI at Umeå University, denied references in her book The AI Paradox were fabricated and said she made “ordinary editing mistakes.” Frank Drewes, head of the computing science department at Umeå University, told...

CEO of AI company loses paper on cognitive impact of generative AI

The April, 2026 paper, published in Technology, Mind, and Behavior, which is published by the American Psychological Association (APA), purported to describe the results of a survey of 1,923 adults recruited online to perform AI-assisted tasks. Experts in the field...

Researchers file First Amendment challenge to NIH grant screening

Researchers today asked a federal court to find that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is acting illegally in barring grants on topics disliked by President Donald Trump’s administration. NIH, which screens grants for sensitive terms and requires changes in...

Paper mill studies get cited by clinical guidelines, policy docs and more, analysis finds

The work, posted on arXiv on August 31, examined the fate of nearly 2,000 academic papers with one common factor: At least one coauthor lists the Pharmakon Neuroscience Network (PNN) as an institutional affiliation. But there’s one problem: the PNN is not a real...

Three-quarters of researchers unsure what use of AI to disclose

Nearly three-quarters of researchers are unclear about what uses of artificial intelligence should be disclosed in scholarly work, while almost half admit to under-disclosure, according to a survey by Oxford University Press. Published on 10 September, 2026 and based...

PeerJ retracts study that secretly observed tourists’ reactions to snakes

The journal PeerJ has retracted a study that attempted to capture tourists’ “authentic responses” to venomous snakes by putting plastic models and dead vipers around popular hiking destinations and secretly watching how people reacted to the encounters. Study author...

CEO of AI company loses paper on cognitive impact of generative AI

The April, 2026 paper, published in Technology, Mind, and Behavior, which is published by the American Psychological Association (APA), purported to describe the results of a survey of 1,923 adults recruited online to perform AI-assisted tasks. Experts in the field...

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