Harvard study: AI peer reviews beat top human experts on every measure
pickover · x · 2026-10-23
A new paper by Harvard's Gary King and Steven Worthington shows AI-generated article reviews are better, by every measure the authors could construct, than reviews from well-compensated human experts judged unusually high-quality by editors and authors. The paper explores policy implications for journals: concerning downsides, but also paths to faster, higher-quality publishing, fewer adversarial interactions, and better experiences for editors, reviewers, authors, and readers.
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