Royal Society AI Math conf: 'arXiv is the new journal, GitHub is the new arXiv'

coherence · x · 2026-10-31

At the Royal Society AI Math conference, a question about the future of publication got a crisp answer from DrDarkMatter: "We will treat arXiv as the new journal, and GitHub as the new arXiv — at least during the transition period." The reblogger added: nobody can predict what comes after.

The quip captures how AI-era research dissemination keeps shifting downstream: preprints replaced journals, and repos are now becoming the live carrier of cutting-edge results.

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