Maxwell’s Ghosts

Generative AI will fundamentally transform all dimensions of scientific and academic activity, if it hasn’t done so already. Whether academic communities can prevent the crisis will depend not least on whether they find answers to three interconnected questions: What changes with the arrival of a new epistemic infrastructure? What risks does a commercial ordering of generative “AI for science” entail? And what can academic communities do to protect their epistemic resources that follows a scientific rather than a commercial logic?