{
  "id": 16649,
  "url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-scientist-research-paper-format",
  "title": "Should Researchers Write Papers for AI Instead of People?",
  "summary": "This May, 37 researchers from roughly two dozen top universities and tech companies published a paper on ArXiv, arguing that scientists should stop writing papers. Why? Because artificial intelligence needs a different format, and AI’s needs, they say, should be the priority. “AI agents are becoming first-class participants in research workflows, not tools that assist humans but autonomous contributors that read, reproduce, and extend scientific work. That transition demands infrastructure built",
  "authors": "David Berreby",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-05T12:00:03.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-06T05:10:11.148Z",
  "source_slug": "ieee-spectrum",
  "source_name": "IEEE Spectrum",
  "source_homepage": "https://spectrum.ieee.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16649",
  "original_url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-scientist-research-paper-format",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}