A new paper posted on arXiv views the scientific literature as an "information commons"—an intangible resource that no one owns and is shared by everyone. According to the abstract, there are well-established economic and political frameworks for understanding how such commons function, and the paper appears to apply those frameworks to the current moment.
The title makes the argument clear: AI is entangled in an enclosure movement. Just as common land was once fenced off, AI may be enclosing the literature that science depends on, turning a universally shared resource into something controlled and less accessible.
The abstract itself is brief, so the details of the argument are not yet visible. But the framing is enough to signal a growing concern: AI's role in science is not only a technical matter, but also a question of who owns and controls the collective record of research.