AI is Making It Harder to Recruit Peer Reviewers
RexDouglass · x · 2026-07-11
The author sarcastically points out that while a technology exists to make peer review easier and higher quality, academia seems to have collectively rejected it, preferring to struggle with reviewer shortages.\n\nThe cited content notes that editors are finding it increasingly difficult to recruit reviewers. The author suggests two possible reasons: first, AI has increased the opportunity cost of reviewing; second, reviewers feel their role boundaries are blurring—for instance, authors might have already run their papers through Claude for a preliminary check.
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