Stanford professor boycotts journals that ban AI, moves to open AI-assisted peer review
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-10-28
Stanford professor Anshul Kundaje announced he will stop reviewing for any journal that bans AI assistance, arguing the average AI-assisted review now beats the average human reviewer, especially in esoteric or cross-disciplinary areas.
- He says AI has surfaced issues he would never have caught himself, notably bugs in code bases, and will review preprints openly with AI to massively speed up and improve reviews.
- His stance: read the paper and draft your own review first, then augment with AI.
- He calls the three-reviewer journal system 'completely broken and irrelevant,' advocating community post-preprint review plus AI as the future.
- Since he plans to stop submitting to journals anyway, he feels no obligation to review for them, paid or unpaid.
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