New Oxford journal adds conference stage to weed out authors who can't explain their AI-written papers
sethlazar · x · 2026-09-14
Philosopher Seth Lazar announces that Oxford Studies in Philosophy of AI and Computing, a new journal, will include a conference phase in its selection process so editors can see which authors can actually build on and defend their submitted ideas — filtering out those who are merely a "meat robot/accountability sink" for an AI.
The move responds to a trend flagged by @tdietterich: arXiv (and presumably conferences and journals) are seeing submissions whose contents the authors likely do not understand, highlighting growing concerns about authorship and accountability as AI deeply enters academic writing.
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