Judea Pearl Quits NAAI as Nature Exposes Sham Scientific Societies Recruiting Star Researchers
yudapearl · x · 2026-09-29
A Nature investigation reveals a network of sham scientific societies deceptively recruiting star researchers: Columbia CS professor Julia Hirschberg was rapidly "elected" to the European Academy of Engineering (claiming 35 Nobel laureates), an Austrian academy, and the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence before realizing they were fraudulent.
Reacting to the report, Turing Award winner Judea Pearl announced he has formally notified NAAI of his resignation and asked it to remove his name and photo from its website, citing the sham honor economy academia's rank systems enable.
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