AI might jeopardize the uncertainty required in science
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Your News story on how artificial intelligence might flatten scientific expression highlights an important shift in how research is communicated (see Nature https://doi.org/q6bs; 2026). An extra consequence, however, could be a change in how uncertainty itself is expressed and interpreted.
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Nature 653, 974 (2026)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01605-6
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