Hu Xiao Chen Changfeng
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Artificial intelligence is reshaping the long-standing structural separation between knowledge production and knowledge dissemination, driving their integration in specific domains. Through a literature review and case analysis of applications such as AlphaFold2, Consensus, BloombergGPT, this paper draws on paradigm theory and actor-network theory to examine the mechanism of change following AI’s intervention in the knowledge ecosystem. The study finds that AI for Science (AI4S) and AI-Generated Content (AIGC) do not share a single technological architecture, yet both rely on data-driven methods, deep learning, and generative modeling to reorganize the traditional division of labor in knowledge generation, processing, verification, and diffusion. Specifically, by compressing intermediary links, blurring the boundaries between production and dissemination, and reshaping the logic of supply-demand connections, AI transitions knowledge operation from temporal separation to spatiotemporal synchronization, from linear division of labor to functional interweaving, and from static products to dynamic services. However, this transformation is constrained by disciplinary modes of validation, institutional norms, and technological reliability, and gives rise to governance issues such as accountability in algorithmic gatekeeping, the reconstruction of knowledge legitimacy, and the amplification of bias.