The Hidden Cost of AI in Science - Joy Moore & Kent Anderson

AI in scientific publishing is changing what researchers trust, what journals reward, and what the public thinks counts as evidence. In this episode, Joy Moore and Kent Anderson unpack how the internet pushed science publishing toward scale, how open access changed incentives, and how paper mills, predatory publishers, and AI slop made the scientific record harder to defend.

They also explain why LLMs create a new problem on top of an old one. Once scientific papers are copied, summarized, remixed, and scattered across preprints, accepted manuscripts, and published versions, it becomes much harder to correct errors or retract bad information. For science, that is not a small technical issue. It is a trust issue.

For business leaders, researchers, and anyone using AI tools to make decisions, this episode is a reminder that source quality still matters. Not every paper is useful. Not every signal is reliable. And not every “science” product deserves your trust.

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Quotes from the Episode

• “The advertising was the internet’s original sin.”
• “You can either find it, or you can make it.”
• “We called it the automated box of confusion.”

Chapters

00:00 Opening and episode framing

01:57 How internet incentives changed scientific publishing

06:38 Fake diseases, preprints, and downstream AI ingestion

10:47 AI slop, fake citations, and abused data sets

16:48 Why public-facing science deserves suspicion

24:08 Centralized AI versus decentralized science

34:29 What can still be fixed in publishing

42:29 Where to find the guests and the book

Where to Find Joy and Kent?

Official site: disruptedscience.com

Podcast: disruptedscience.podbean.com

Book: How the Internet Disrupted Science by Kent Anderson and Joy Moore, published by Globe Pequot / listed by Simon & Schuster, just out now 🚀 Get it wherever you get your books!

LinkedIn:

• Joy Moore: linkedin.com/in/joy-moore-a94865
• Kent Anderson: linkedin.com/in/kentranderson

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