ChatGPT to the rescue?

Abstract

For years, but especially since the pandemic, this page and many others in <i>Science</i> and elsewhere have been filled with lamentations about the spread of scientific misinformation-and hand wringing on how to prevent it. High-speed sharing and the relentless activity of social media influencers have made this difficult problem even worse. Dangerous skepticism about the COVID-19 vaccine, for example, continues to stoke wider hesitancy to other vaccines, a disastrous consequence for public health. Solutions to blunt scientific misinformation have been elusive. Now a new study, reported in this issue of <i>Science</i>, suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) could provide a means to dispel misinformation and in a way that lasts.