Spanish Early Career researchers and Artificial Intelligence
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https://doi.org/10.3145/thinkepi.2025.e19a25Keywords:
2023, 2025, Scientific communication, Interviews, Spain, Artificial Intelligence tools, Artificial Intelligence, Early Career Researchers, Harbingers Projects, Acadejic life, ECRs, AIAbstract
This paper presents the results of interviews conducted with Spanish Early Career Researchers (ECRs) in 2023 and 2025. The research, framed within the Harbingers Projects, focuses on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in their academic lives, and primarily in the process of scientific communication. Their voices have revealed that these researchers without stable employment are not leaders in the new technology but rather critical thinkers who reflect on its possibilities and risks, and experiment with it. However, in 2025, a greater diversity of tools used and a wider range of tasks undertaken with the help of AI were observedDownloads
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