4 papers
AICID: Unique Identifiers for AI Scientists
Clément Vidal, Martin Monperrus
AI scientists are now a reality, with the ability to generate complete research papers, maintain scholarly profiles, receive citations, and attract peer review invitations. Yet no…
Project Rachel: Can an AI Become a Scholarly Author?
Martin Monperrus, Benoit Baudry, Clément Vidal
This paper documents Project Rachel, an action research study that created and tracked a complete AI academic identity named Rachel So. Through careful publication of AI-generated…
Responsible Discovery in Astrobiology: Lessons from Four Controversial Claims
Daliah Raquel Bibas, Clément Vidal
This paper examines four case studies of life-detection claims in astrobiology, covering both biosignatures and technosignatures: the 1877 "canals" on Mars, the 1976 Mars Viking la…
Projections of Earth's Technosphere: Luminosity and Mass as Limits to Growth
Jacob Haqq-Misra, Clément Vidal, George Profitiliotis
Earth remains the only known example of a planet with technology, and future projections of Earth's trajectory provide a basis and motivation for approaching the search for extrate…