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Next week, on Thursday the 28th I'll give a talk at Digital Futures @ KTH Royal Institute of Technology with my host Mario Romero. I'll be talking about research integrity and artificial intelligence. If you'd like to join the event, online or in person, please go to: https://lnkd.in/dvETTZ7B Here is an abstract for the whole talk: Within months of the SARS-CoV-2 virus being identified the disease progression to COVID viral transmission routes and treatment options had been carefully catalogued and effective vaccines had begun development. This stands as one of the most impressive scientific achievements of the modern era. However it is likely that the response to COVID-19 has succeeded in spite of, rather than thanks to, the present system for disseminating scientific outcomes. In fact in many ways the current dissemination system has failed us and been used during the pandemic. In this interactive talk I will explore, through examples in which I was involved in, how the publication system has been too opaque, politicized, and prone to fast publication without adequate correction. I will then involve the attendees in detecting and trying to understand some of the current manipulations and misconduct that are the most often seen in the literature. The talk will cover everything from: questionable research practices to fake papers and include image/visualization manipulation, fake data, peer-review fraud, meta-data fraud, and paper mills and tackle the impact of Artificial Intelligence for the production and detection of questionable research practices.