Explain the Black Box for the Sake of Science: the Scientific Method in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Understand

The scientific method is the cornerstone of human progress across all branches of the natural and applied sciences, from understanding the human body to explaining how the universe works.

• The scientific method is based on identifying systematic rules or principles that describe the phenomenon of interest in a reproducible way that can be validated through experimental evidence.
• In the era of generative artificial intelligence, there are discussions on how AI systems may discover new knowledge.
• We argue that human complex reasoning for scientific discovery remains of vital importance, at least before the advent of artificial general intelligence.