Scientists debate alternatives to academic publishing as AI shakes the system

TuhinChakr · x · 2026-09-20

Researcher Anshul Kundaje urged academics to seriously consider, discuss and test alternative approaches to the publishing system instead of clinging to the old one. Stanford's Jessica Hullman responded that it's not obvious we can save the publication system — with quotas, correctness checks and reviewer resistance — but also not obvious we can't, since experiments just began. Too early to call.

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