AI Community Debate: Top Conferences Decline as Frontier Research Moves Behind Closed Doors
burny_tech · x · 2026-08-05
AI researcher Keller Jordan pointed out that big lab researchers now read almost zero papers, understanding top conferences like ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS to be mainly full of overclaims and fraud (though a few diamonds remain).
This sparked community resonance. Researcher Kris Micinski further lamented that the decline of top academic conferences and the shift of meaningful AI research behind closed doors is actually a bad sign for the open academic community.
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