Professor Mehtab Khan published an article titled “Knowledge Intermediaries” on Verfassungsblog, a global forum for international experts to publish cutting-edge commentary on public law.

Professor Khan argues that AI systems are changing “from a research aid to what I call a knowledge intermediary: an institution or platform that now serves as an interface between the researcher and the primary material, influencing not just what is found but how it is understood and built upon.” She warns that as AI knowledge intermediaries “absorb more of the analytical and creative work of legal and academic knowledge production, we risk sidelining the standards that define both fields, as well as the people and institutions that occupy places of expertise.”

Professor Khan identifies various risks connected with delegating too much work to knowledge intermediaries, and stresses the need for academic resesarchers to have “the capacity to engage with [information] in ways that allow you to persuade and produce compelling arguments.”