Pedro Domingos proposes scrapping accept/reject: reviewers rate papers, attendees vote on what gets in

pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-04

AI researcher Pedro Domingos proposes rethinking peer review: reviewers shouldn't accept or reject papers, only rate them on correctness, importance, novelty, and clarity. Conference attendees would then vote on which papers they'd like to see, with top-ranked ones chosen — shifting selection power from a few reviewers to the research community.

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