Economist John Horton uses AI voice interviews to verify authors understand their own papers
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-19
Economist John Horton blogged about flipping the script on AI-generated submissions: an AI voice interviews authors to check whether they actually understand what they submitted. The poster reports passing the AI interview on their own paper, a live test of the method.
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