Don’t trust AI for help with citations, science-fair judges warn

Don’t trust AI for help with citations, science-fair judges warn

Jenna DeLuca felt confused and frustrated. It was spring 2025, and this science fair judge had just DQ’d — disqualified — another student project. It was for the same reason as several others. The teen’s project listed questionable research papers among its sources. For some, DeLuca says, “the title would be correct, the journal would be right, but the authors were wrong.” In other cases, she notes, the journal “didn’t even exist.” It was totall…