If AI Writes All the Papers, Peer Review Becomes Humanity's Remaining Role
sudoraohacker · x · 2026-09-23
Perry Metzger argues that if AI generates all conference and journal papers, the current faculty hiring/tenure system is dead—but that's a niche academic problem, not society's.
sudoraohacker builds on this: he'd welcome a world where AI does most cutting-edge knowledge production while humans focus on verifying knowledge over time. Academia may lose identity and status, but peer review stays important. In the Deutsch-ian view, knowledge growth is infinite and bounded by cognition—humans by organic rationality, AI by compute and energy limits.
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