Editor fully resigns from JMLR, arguing AI reviews beat rushed humans and journals need a rethink
roydanroy · x · 2026-11-02
A JMLR editor announced a full resignation, arguing science is fine but journals need a complete rethink: AI reviews by top models now beat time-pressed human reviewers, and one-time accept/reject gatekeeping no longer makes sense as literature moves faster than ever. He proposes treating the literature as a distributed data structure and starting over.
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