Economist: AI submissions burn massive human review time to be identified as trash
paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-24
Economist Paul Novosad criticizes AI-era academia: trash submissions now require huge human time to be identified as trash, which never happened before. Writing itself is thinking in the social sciences, he adds.
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