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Thursday, December 03, 2020

Detecting Scientific Conflicts of Interest

 With other kinds of application in compliance.   But see the note about subjective aspects. 

Do You Have a Conflict of Interest? This Robotic Assistant May Find It First

The New York Times, Dalmeet Singh Chawla

Frontiers, a Swiss publisher of open-access journals, has rolled out the Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant (AIRA) to check for potential conflicts of interest. The software flags whether the authors of a manuscript, as well as the editors and peer reviewers handling it, have been co-authors on previous papers. Said Frontiers' Kamila Markram, "AIRA is designed to direct the attention of human experts to potential issues in manuscripts." Other publications are using similar artificial intelligence (AI) tools, but some researchers note that conflicts of interest can be subjective and difficult to unravel. Canada's McGill University computer scientist Kaleem Siddiqi noted, "There's no real solution."  .... 

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