# AI Could Make Scientific Replication Cheap Enough to Matter

- slug: ai-could-make-scientific-replication-cheap-enough-to-matter
- date: 2026-04-25
- category: Artificial Intelligence

A documented Claude replication and a new economist-vs-AI study point to the same shift: science may finally have a scalable audit tool. The real prize is not smarter papers. It is cheaper error correction.

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