Reviewer statement pledges to reject AI-generated papers, sparking academic feud
JessicaHullman · x · 2026-10-06
University of Washington researcher Jessica Hullman co-authored a "Reviewer Commitment to Authorial Accountability": reviewers will decline to review papers whose prose appears predominantly AI-generated.
Key points:
- Peer review assumes authors have deliberately selected and will defend the claims; heavy AI generation undermines that assumption
- AI-boosted submission surges make expert human judgment scarcer and worth allocating selectively
- The statement explicitly avoids claiming AI-writing detection is a perfect signal or offering evidentiary standards—it's a personal choice framework for reviewers
Hullman then pushed back on claims (involving Polson and a co-author) that the statement targeted them specifically, noting it was also misattributed to Andrew Gelman—turning a peer-review policy into a public academic spat.
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