GoKawiilNature investigation finds fake academies recruiting real scientists without consent
Nature reports that organizations calling themselves the European Academy of Engineering, the Austrian Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence have been electing prominent researchers, including Columbia University's Julia Hirschberg, to memberships and leadership roles they never agreed to hold. Hirschberg says she was listed as a rotating chairperson on the EAE website despite never accepting the position, and the group's secretariat told Nature he had "inferred" her consent from an email exchange that contained no such agreement.