Lunch & Learn: Navigating Open Science in the Age of AI: Challenges and Lessons from Zenodo

Presenter: Alex Ioannidis | CERN / Zenodo 

Open Science infrastructures have greatly enhanced global knowledge sharing, but the rise of AI presents new threats to the integrity of scholarly communications. The rapid increase in AI-generated content obscures the distinction between genuine research and sophisticated fabrication, while aggressive data harvesting practices exploit open repositories at scale.

In this session, we share practical experiences from managing Zenodo, a large-scale open science infrastructure, focusing on how we balance openness with security in the age of AI. We discuss technical solutions such as advanced machine-learning classifiers to detect AI-generated spam, governance strategies, and community-driven moderation policies that help maintain the credibility and quality of open science systems.

Diese Lunch & Learn Serie bietet Angehörigen der UZH monatlich einen kurzen und übersichtlichen Einblick in verschiedene Aspekte rund um Open Science. Der Anlass beginnt jeweils mit einem halbstündigen Input-Referat und schliesst mit einer offenen Fragenrunde.