Researchers clash over arXiv 'oral exams' proposal amid flood of AI-written submissions
RishiBommasani · x · 2026-09-15
- arXiv researcher Tom Dietterich flagged a new trend: authors submitting papers whose contents they likely don't understand, presumably spreading to conferences and journals.
- Stanford professor Anshul Kundaje mocked the reported "oral exams" proposal for preprint submissions, saying arXiv has "completely lost the plot"; Rishi Bommasani (Stanford HAI) amplified the debate.
- The exchange highlights the deeper tension between AI-assisted paper flooding and trust mechanisms in scholarly publishing.
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