Generative artificial intelligence and scientific publishing: urgent questions, difficult answers
Azeem Azhar describes, in Exponential: Order and Chaos in an Age of Accelerating Technology, how human society finds it hard to imagine or process exponential growth and change and is repeatedly caught out by this phenomenon.1 Whether it is the exponential spread of a virus or the exponential spread of a new technology, such as the smartphone, people consistently underestimate its impact. Azhar argues that an exponential gap has developed between technological progress and the pace at which institutions are evolving to deal with that progress.