AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference
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AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference
"AI models are already being used to generate and review research, but most publishers and conference organizers ban machines from being listed as paper authors or speakers. "We thought we'd flip it around, where both the authors and the reviewers have to be AI," says Zou. Although humans can offer advice and feedback, according to conference guidance, AIs should be the primary contributor, akin to the first author."
"The conference draws attention to "the fact that those of us in the AI world need to do a better job at understanding what the strengths and weaknesses are of using systems in this way", says computer scientist Margaret Mitchell, who studies AI ethics at Hug Face in New York City. "How to evaluate AI agents at all is an open research area," she adds."
Agents4Science 2025 will run online on 22 October and present papers and reviews produced entirely by AI agents, with human attendees. Presentations will be delivered either by AI agents or by the humans who ran the experiments, accompanied by academic panel discussions. The conference serves as a controlled environment to experiment with alternative submission and review processes. Researchers are shifting from single-task models to coordinated groups of models—agents—that act across the research workflow. Most publishers currently ban listing machines as paper authors or speakers, but the event requires AI to be the primary contributor while allowing human advice. Evaluating agent performance remains an open research challenge.
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