# Will AI speed up literature reviews or derail them entirely? *2025-07-01 — paper* Authors: Sam Reynolds, Alec Christie, Lynn Dicks, Sadiq Jaffer, Anil Madhavapeddy, William J. Sutherland The publication of ever-larger numbers of problematic papers, including fake ones generated by artificial intelligence, represents an existential crisis for the established way of doing evidence synthesis. But with a new approach, AI might also save the day. DOI: 10.1038/d41586-025-02069-w Classification: full Venue: Nature Volume: 643 Issue: 8071 URL: https://rdcu.be/evkfj Projects: Conservation Evidence Copilots ## Related - [Rewilding the Web: my workshop report from Edinburgh](https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rewilding-the-web-report) (note, 2026-05-30) - [AI, science and the UK–EU relationship at the Royal Society](https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rs-eu-ai-science) (note, 2026-04-21) - [.plan-26-13: Oxidised, standardised, and syndicated](https://anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w13) (note, 2026-03-29) - [Connecting the dots for biodiversity action from the NAS/Royal Society Forum](https://anil.recoil.org/notes/nas-rs-biodiversity-papers) (note, 2026-03-07) - [At the AI Impact Summit in Delhi: people, planet, progress](https://anil.recoil.org/notes/india-ai-summit) (note, 2026-02-21) - [.plan-26-07: Storage, Lego, Echo, and the IUCN](https://anil.recoil.org/notes/2026w7) (note, 2026-02-15) - [Discussing effective conservation with all the UK Chief Scientists](https://anil.recoil.org/notes/red-pill-conservation) (note, 2026-02-03) - [Publish, Review, Curate to upend scholarly publishing](https://anil.recoil.org/notes/coar-prc) (note, 2025-12-08) - [Four Ps for Building Massive Collective Knowledge Systems](https://anil.recoil.org/notes/principles-for-collective-knowledge) (note, 2025-11-23) - [Royal Society's Future of Scientific Publishing meeting](https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rs-future-of-publishing) (note, 2025-07-14) - [Is AI poisoning the scientific literature? Our comment in Nature](https://anil.recoil.org/notes/ai-poisoning) (note, 2025-07-08) - [Conservation Evidence Copilots](https://anil.recoil.org/projects/ce) (project, 2024-01-01) --- Canonical: https://anil.recoil.org/papers/2025-ai-poison Type: paper License: CC BY 4.0 Tags: journal, ce