Knowledge
Knowledge infrastructure, academic publishing, peer review systems, gatekeeping in research, and how institutions maintain quality and access in scholarly communication.
2 labs in this category
May 2026
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21 May
Early Access and Framing
Policy gets shaped by whoever provides information before the public debate starts—early access to decision-makers lets you define which questions get asked and which options look reasonable.
From: The power of A.I. lobbyists in U.S. statehouses - NBC New York
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17 May
Upstream and Downstream Filtering
A quality-control system can filter at entry or filter after entry by removing bad items later—when production cost drops to near-zero, the second strategy fails because pollution arrives faster than the system can clean, forcing a shift to stricter gates at submission.
From: ArXiv will ban researchers who upload papers full of AI slop