Researcher proposes agentic systems to assist human reviewers amid AI-generated paper surge
JJitsev · x · 2026-09-20
JJitsev argues that when a prompt like "find an unresolved problem and make a breakthrough" can yield seemingly valid work, the scientific community must rethink how it handles journal/conference submissions — and the flood of valueless material. His obvious answer: deploy agentic systems to assist human reviewers, mirroring how agents now assist human writers, re-establishing symmetry on both sides. Looking at ICLR submission numbers, the time is now.
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