Age of AI—Episode 2.5: The Symmetric Loop

What Happens When Authors and Reviewers Use the Same AI?

In 30 Seconds

Artificial intelligence may initially flood academia with polished but unoriginal work. That is the short-run AI-slop problem.

But slop is unlikely to be the final equilibrium. When authors can use AI to anticipate reviewers—and reviewers can use similar AI to evaluate authors—routine academic execution becomes easier to produce and less inf…