AI-Driven Reboot of Scholarly Publishing

Tyler Cowen asks for ideas on how AI should transform academic journals; commenters propose AI-led triage and grading, disclosures of AI use, open-access reforms, machine-readable submissions with supporting artifacts, transparent AI pipelines, auditing, and new funding models, while skeptics caution that AI cannot fully replace human reviewers or authorship, highlighting both opportunities and risks in rethinking scholarly publishing.