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The Real Crisis in Academia Is Not That AI Can Write Papers, but That We Only Know How to Recognize Titles—Hu Yilin on How to Make Knowledge Subject to Examination Again

AI & Scholarship2026.07.10
The Real Crisis in Academia Is Not That AI Can Write Papers, but That We Only Know How to Recognize Titles—Hu Yilin on How to Make Knowledge Subject to Examination Again
Hu Yilin Interview | July 10, 2026 ◆ Lead-in | In May 2026, an international medical conference held in Copenhagen was drawn into a suspected case of systemic academic fraud: several Indonesian participants were accused of falsifying institutional affiliations, impersonating real researchers, and smuggling dubious research into the conference. Indonesia’s higher-education authorities and national research institutions then launched an investigation. In July, Nature reported on “humanizing” tools that can erase the “AI tone” from academic text; another audit of 2.5 million biomedical papers found false citations in nearly 3,000 papers that could not be matched to real publications.[1][3][4] Fake scholars, fake authors, fake citations, AI cheating—these incidents all seem to…
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Jul 10, 2026
From “Speak Mandarin” to “Preserve Dialects”: Singapore’s Language Policy Has Reached the Point of Shifting Gears

AI & the Future of Technology2026.06.24
From “Speak Mandarin” to “Preserve Dialects”: Singapore’s Language Policy Has Reached the Point of Shifting Gears
Hu Yilin on language policy, the revival of dialects, and the boundaries of freedom IntroductionA Chinese film led mainly in Teochew, Dear You, has recently sparked discussion in Singapore. The film was originally released in Singapore mainly with Mandarin dubbing, but after audiences responded enthusiastically to screenings of the original Teochew version, Golden Village added Teochew showings and continued to apply to IMDA for more screenings. The Straits Times reported that some Teochew screenings quickly sold out, and the cinema chain is seeking approval to add more original-language screenings.Source: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/golden-village-seeking-imda-approval-for-up-to-50-screenings-of-dear-you-in-teochew This controversy is worth paying attention to not only because of a film’s screening choices, but because it once again…
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Jun 24, 2026
Stop Asking Whether It Was Written by AI; First Ask Whether It’s Any Good

AI & Scholarship2026.06.24
Stop Asking Whether It Was Written by AI; First Ask Whether It’s Any Good
Hu Yilin on AI Writing, Authorial Responsibility, and the Academic Paper System IntroductionAfter science fiction writer Hao Jingfang spoke about AI’s participation in novel writing, a dispute broke out over whether “AI writing should be labeled” and whether “AI as the chief writer still counts as creation.” What such arguments really touch is not how much AI a particular writer used, but how authors, readers, and the academic community should rethink creation, responsibility, and evaluation once AI has entered the formal writing process. Hu Yilin’s position is very clear: he not only supports AI-assisted writing, but also AI-led writing. Human beings can in the future completely become second authors, editors,…
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Jun 24, 2026
Universities that prohibit students from using AI to write papers should be dissolved immediately

AI & Scholarship2026.05.27
Universities that prohibit students from using AI to write papers should be dissolved immediately
It’s graduation season again, and recently many universities in China have acquired a new task: checking AI-generation rates. Rules like “if AI-generated content (AIGC rate) exceeds 40%, you cannot graduate” are simply hilarious; they show how helpless some universities are in the age of AI. I believe that any university that stipulates that using AI means you cannot graduate can be dissolved on the spot; that is the best thing it can do for this era. Stop misleading the young. Checking the AIGC rate is a joke Checking the AIGC rate is in the same vein as the earlier thesis plagiarism check. I criticized the absurdity of plagiarism checks in…
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May 27, 2026
If Scholars Don’t Use AI, That Counts as Academic Corruption

AI & Scholarship2026.05.09
If Scholars Don’t Use AI, That Counts as Academic Corruption
AI’s New Advances At the end of last year, at someone’s request, I wrote a piece, Will AI Restructure the History of Science?. That happened to coincide with the release of gemini 3.0, and I thought it marked a watershed, the point at which AI moved from the level of a student to the level of a professional researcher. Less than half a year later, the AI tool landscape has once again shifted dramatically; gemini long ago ceased to be leading, and claude and chatgpt have reclaimed the lead in capability. More importantly, claude’s cowork and chatgpt’s codex have both undergone qualitative leaps forward too (perhaps spurred on by openclaw),…
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May 9, 2026
Gathering All the Books in the World—Can the Library of Alexandria of the AI Era Endure?

AI & Scholarship2026.04.23
Gathering All the Books in the World—Can the Library of Alexandria of the AI Era Endure?
This article was published in China Science Daily (2026-04-23, p. 3, General), with the title changed to AI Can Now Read “All the Books in the World”; Do Humans Still Need to Read Books?. It was edited down and divided into sections at publication; the original draft is posted here: Around 295 BCE, Ptolemy I commissioned the Greek scholar Demetrius to build a magnificent library and Mouseion (an academic institution) in the city of Alexandria. Demetrius proposed the grand vision of “collecting all the books in the world,” and it received the continuing support of the Ptolemaic royal house. The first three Ptolemies carried the project forward one after another,…
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Apr 23, 2026
Will AI Restructure the History of Science?

AI & Scholarship2026.03.24
Will AI Restructure the History of Science?
Published in Xinrui Weekly, issue 162; the original draft is posted here. 1 AI accelerates iteration: from assistant to master I received this commissioned piece in September, but I procrastinated until December to write it. Yet that delay also meant I waited for the November 18 release of Gemini 3.0, a milestone that marks the restructuring of academic research by AI as having entered the present continuous tense. It is not that Gemini 3.0 overturned my previous views; rather, many of the “AI will…” statements I had discussed before now have to be rewritten as “AI can already…”. The previous major milestone was probably at the beginning of 2025, when…
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Mar 24, 2026
How to Be a Punk Philosopher

History of Science & Scholarship2026.02.04
How to Be a Punk Philosopher
On January 30, 2026, I came to Chiang Mai to attend GCC’s first Chinese-language “Cypherpunk x Thinker Gathering,” where I gave a 20-minute talk, “How to Be a Punk Philosopher.” I had actively asked to join this event after seeing the announcement, because I was very fond of this theme. On the one hand, “cypherpunk” is a current of thought I very much hope to spread in the Chinese-speaking world; on the other hand, “cypherpunk thinker” is also how I position myself, and it is much cooler than “independent scholar.” My talk introduced what “punk” is and elaborated the claim that philosophers ought to be punk. But the time on…
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Feb 4, 2026
“Big Questions” Are Once Again Becoming Highly Controversial in the Present #”Xinrui Weekly” 2025 Year-End Special, 09

AI & Scholarship2026.01.06
“Big Questions” Are Once Again Becoming Highly Controversial in the Present #”Xinrui Weekly” 2025 Year-End Special, 09
This is a written interview, published in issue 160 of Xinrui Weekly; it was abridged when first published, so here I am posting the original text. Q1.[Required] First, could you talk about what took up the most of your energy this year, and why you wanted to push this thing forward? The thing that took up the most of my energy this year was actually raising a child, after all, life matters more than affairs. Of course, the more official thing is that I founded a technology and art studio. Today, with AI and other technologies (such as biotechnology) developing at a breathtaking pace, every industry will undergo drastic change,…
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Jan 6, 2026
How Science Museums in China Can Innovate by Bringing Forth the New

Culture & Public Commentary2025.09.12
How Science Museums in China Can Innovate by Bringing Forth the New
Published in Science Times (2025-08-28, p. 3, general), with the title changed to “The first users of science museums should not be teenagers, but scholars” In this summer vacation, which is about to end, science museums have joined the ranks of the many must-check-in tourist destinations. For parents, if they want their children to take part in some edutainment-oriented activities, science museums are obviously one of the best choices. In recent years, our country has continuously increased investment in science museum construction. According to Xinhua News Agency, the number of science museums open free of charge in China increased from 92 in 2015 to 409 in 2024, with an average…
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