Why Go to Conferences When AI Reads and Writes the Papers?
plopesresearch · x · 2026-11-10
Masahiko Inami (University of Tokyo) reflects on academic conferences in the AI era. As an Associate Chair coordinating peer review, he found many submissions with AI-hallucinated citations ("HalluCitation"), and Daisuke Sakamoto famously complained about reviewing for free as "an LLM verification machine."
Key points:
- A conference "of AI, by AI, for AI" is becoming real; if writing and reviewing pass between machines, why travel to a room?
- He welcomes assigning an AI as one reviewer per paper, freeing humans to help authors strengthen and sharpen contributions.
- The essay defends human-scale conferences as the place where new research questions take shape.
First published in Japanese, now released in English by the author.
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