14 April 2026
A new white paper by Pleiade explores how agentic AI could transform scientific research. In AI-mediated research, intelligent agents take on a growing share of cognitive tasks across the research lifecycle. This may accelerate scientific discovery, but it also creates a verification gap between machine-generated knowledge and the human capacity to verify it. The authors argue that open science, together with the knowledge infrastructures managed by academic libraries, can play a key role in addressing this verification gap. In this context, the focus of open science may shift—from open access to research outputs to greater transparency and reproducibility of the entire research process. The knowledge resources managed by academic libraries – whose users may increasingly be AI agents – could become a bastion of publicly governed knowledge infrastructures, essential for academic sovereignty. The white paper further elaborates on the implications of AI-mediated research for scientific knowledge production, open science and the evolving role and services of academic libraries.
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