H. Holden Thorp Editor-in-Chief, Science journals.
Science. 2024 Sep 13;385(6714):1143. doi: 10.1126/science.adt0007. Epub 2024 Sep 12.
For years, but especially since the pandemic, this page and many others in 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 , suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) could provide a means to dispel misinformation and in a way that lasts.
多年来，尤其是自疫情以来， 和其他地方的本网页和许多其他网页上充斥着对科学错误信息传播的哀叹——以及对如何预防这种情况的担忧。高速分享和社交媒体影响者的不懈活动使这个困难的问题更加严重。例如，对 COVID-19 疫苗的危险怀疑继续加剧了对其他疫苗的广泛犹豫，这对公共卫生造成了灾难性的后果。遏制科学错误信息的解决方案一直难以捉摸。现在，发表在本期 杂志上的一项新研究表明，人工智能 (AI) 可能提供一种消除错误信息的方法，而且这种方法可以持久。
