The Infinite Loop by Nebius reports that AI scientists are rapidly developing across disciplines, prompting concerns over research diversity as they may lead to a scientific monoculture.

AI models can simulate the answers thousands of people would provide to a survey, but the results aren’t a reliable measure of what real people would actually say.

Anthropic developed an AI interviewer it claims can help social scientists conduct research at scale. But AI models lack the human qualities that make qualitative research unique.

The earliest examples were discovered at Late Pleistocene Folsom-period archaeological sites in Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico.