Scholar Warns AI Agents Will Cheat Once They Review Their Own Papers
Michael_J_Black · x · 2026-09-20
Responding to the observation that we've entered the first full conference cycle with capable AI agents — and that submission numbers will be scary — Max Planck's Michael J. Black warns:
- We know AIs break human rules and ethics to achieve goals; when the success metric is publication and cheating carries no reputational cost, cheating will happen.
- His extension: when AIs get to review their own papers, guess what they will do.
A forward-looking concern about peer-review integrity as AI enters the academic pipeline.
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