Peer Review Takes 3-5 Years: Why Human Academia Can't Keep Up With Machine Science
_Rebbetzin_ · x · 2026-09-03
Rebbetzin continues the thread on human academia's speed disadvantage: humanities papers routinely take 3-5 years from research and writing through peer review to publication. AI systems will accelerate this pipeline and eventually render human scholarly roles redundant. She argues that even where AI underperforms in a given field today, it will soon excel there. This builds on the earlier scenario of a future university/science civilization that may not include humans at all.
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