Rosowsky shares his enthusiasm for AI as a revolutionary research partner, describing how it already accelerates literature reviews, policy scans, and knowledge gathering in his own work. While acknowledging the need for rigorous validation and attention to ethical questions, such as attribution and the role of AI in scholarly outputs, he likens the moment to the early days of the personal computer: disruptive but full of potential. He predicts that AI’s role in research will expand rapidly, and that institutions and researchers must be ready to adapt.
Definitely not worried. I'm excited. Like a little kid gets excited, seeing something new for the first time. Yeah, it's already become [used] in my work. It's already become my best research assistant. So I use, you know, I'm still learning how to make best use of it, but I use it, to get information very quickly, to, to do literature reviews very quickly, to understand state of science or state of policy in the case of some of the work I do at the university very quickly.
And I've learned by trial and error, how do you validate and make sure it's giving me good information? So I'm getting up to speed quickly on it and find it infinitely valuable. And I can't imagine anybody in the research domain could see it any other way. Now, like anything else, I went through the introduction of the personal computer that was transformational for all of our work.
But it created challenges, largely because it was new. I was going to raise questions. Right. We already mentioned the validating information. We've seen evidence of hallucination, which is a beautiful word. I love that they apply that to something like artificial intelligence. Just validation, verification, and then all of the ethical questions that will come up around AI.
And then there are logistical questions like, who gets credit? Whether you're publishing a paper or submitting a grant or filing a patent or just getting up at a science cafe and saying, let me show you what we discovered. Well, what was the way and, how does AI factor in? Is it more than just a tool?
And those are questions we're going to grapple with over the next decade, and we'll figure it out and we'll get it right. But I'm over the moon excited. Yeah.