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The rise of AI and threat to the future of real science

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Throughout the history of civilisation, technological evolution has largely improved human life. From the control of fire and invention of the wheel to steam engine and computer mainframes, each breakthrough has propelled society forward. Yet every leap has been accompanied by anxiety. 

Literature captured these fears memorably through Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, where a human-made creation escapes its maker’s control. As artificial intelligence rapidly evolves, similar unease is resurfacing particularly within scientific and academic inquiry.

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