The Enduring Value of Human Physics in an Age of AI Sarah Demers, chair of the physics department at Yale University and lead author on the American Physical Society (APS) policy statement on artificial intelligence (AI), is leading a quiet conversation among physicists about what it means to do their work.
Her concerns go beyond the impact of AI on research itself; she's worried about the fundamental values that underpin the scientific process.
Demers' reservations aren't driven by fears of AI displacing human physicists, but rather by a more insidious threat: the loss of intellectual property and attribution in an era where large language models (LLMs) are trained on datasets containing others' work without proper credit.