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Atlantic Editor Warns AI Is Collapsing Academic Publishing's Currency

As reports describe AI reshaping the scientific-publishing pipeline, a journal editor writing in The Atlantic says the system's social currency is already collapsing.

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What to know

  • Reports describe AI tools increasingly embedded in scientific publishing, from manuscript writing to peer review.
  • An Atlantic essay by journal editor Anna Wexler argues AI is collapsing the 'social capital' that peer-reviewed publication once provided researchers.
  • Early social reaction speculates journals may respond by becoming more exclusive or elitist as a defense against AI-driven submissions.

Anna Wexler Journal editor, Atlantic contributorThe Rockefeller University Source of reporting on AI in scientific publishing

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    Readers predict journals will grow more exclusive

    Responding to the Atlantic essay on Mastodon, a reader speculates that parts of scientific publishing will become more elitist as a defensive response to AI, while another shares the piece's central claim that the journal article's currency is collapsing.

    “Seguramente parte de las publicaciones científicas se volverán más elitistas como consecuencia de la IA. Y no podemos culparles por ello…”
    — jesgar@mamot.fr
    • ingorohlfing@mastodon.social

      AI-Generated Articles Are Flooding Academic Journals - The Atlantic https://www. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/ ai-journal-articles-writing/689186/ Summarizes once more the challenges the current publishing system faces because of AI & increasing submission numbers. The last paragraph, however, is too pessimistic, in my view, and does not follow…

      ingorohlfing@mastodon.socialMastodon6d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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    • bich@apobangpo.space

      "These scholars are, in turn, receiving more and more review requests. In some cases, the cycle has become absurd: AI-assisted papers land with overworked editors, who send them to rushed reviewers, who in some cases use AI to write the review, which the authors revise and resubmit using AI." https://www. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/…

      bich@apobangpo.spaceMastodon6d agoview on Mastodon ↗
    • jesgar@mamot.fr

      Seguramente parte de las publicaciones científicas se volverán más elitistas como consecuencia de la IA. Y no podemos culparles por ello https://www. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/ ai-journal-articles-writing/689186/

      jesgar@mamot.frMastodon8d agoview on Mastodon ↗
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    Anna Wexler says AI is destroying academic publishing

    In an Atlantic essay, journal editor Anna Wexler argues that AI-generated writing and reviewing are eroding the social capital that academic publication has traditionally conferred on researchers.

    “As a journal editor I can say: The currency of academic social capital is collapsing.”
    — Anna Wexler

    1. 1 outlet first by The Atlantic, 9d ago · read ↗

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    Outlets report AI is reshaping scientific publishing

    Syndicated coverage describes how AI tools are increasingly used throughout the scientific publishing pipeline, from drafting manuscripts to assisting peer review, raising concerns about quality and volume of submissions.

    1. 2 outlets first by The Rockefeller University, 10d ago · also Mirage News · read ↗

    2. 1 outlet AI is rewriting scientific publishing

      first by Tomorrow's Publisher, 12d ago

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