New AI extinction scenario: humans exhausted reviewing endless AI paper submissions
rao2z · x · 2026-09-21
A tongue-in-cheek take on AI doomsday tropes: a new, more sinister 'Paper Cliff' scenario where all humans must spend every waking minute reviewing AI conference submissions, eventually leading to their exhausted extinction — a jab at AI-generated paper flood ahead of ICLR 2027.
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