ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
Scientific Progress and Artificial Intelligence: a Capabilities-Based Ethnographic Epistemology
Science is famous for its tools, which focus or empower abilities like seeing, calculating, remembering, manipulating, and predicting. Yet despite centuries of organized science and decades of science studies, there is still very little written about what scientific abilities are, or how tools extend them. This is striking, because scientific progress is clearly tied to scientists' increasing ability to solve problems. PACE proposes an interdisciplinary comparative study of what is being called a revolution in scientific ability: the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) methods. PACE has descriptive and normative aims. The main descriptive aim is to identify how AI is currently…
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