No Provenance The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is distancing itself from a headline-making paper about AI's purported ability to accelerate the speed of science. The paper in question, titled "Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation," was published in December as a pre-print by an MIT graduate student in economics, Aidan Toner-Rodgers, and quickly generated buzz. Outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Nature, and The Atlantic covered the paper's alleged findings, which it said showed that the embrace of AI at a materials science lab led to a significant increase in workforce productivity and scientific discovery, although at the cost of workforce […]