“While student privacy laws and MIT policy prohibit the disclosure of the outcome of this review, we are writing to inform you that MIT has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
MIT disowned a widely cited paper by one of its PhD students that claimed AI made materials scientists 44% more productive. The paper was never peer reviewed. Two prominent MIT economists had promoted it. The author has not withdrawn it.