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gking.harvard.edu

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AI Article Reviews Dominate Human Peer Reviews at Their Best: Evidence and Policy Choices

Authors

Gary King, Steven Worthington

Venue

Working paper, Harvard University

Published

2026-10-22

Shows that AI-generated article reviews scored better, by every measure the authors constructed, than reviews written by well-compensated human experts judged to be of unusually high quality, and discusses implications for journal policy. Working paper.

gking.harvard.eduAdded Oct 23, 20260 opens

shapingwork.mit.edu

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Does AI Assistance Enhance or Erode Expertise? Evidence from a Three-Month Field Experiment in Patent Drafting

Authors

David Autor, Tanya Rodchenko, Josh Martin, Zanna Iscenko, Scott Strand, David Pearl, Melissa Ferere

Venue

MIT Shaping the Future of Work working paper (not peer-reviewed)

Published

2026-09-01

Working paper (September 2026) from the MIT Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work. In a pre-registered randomized trial with 133 practicing patent lawyers at 11 U.S. law firms, AI drafting help raised work quality, with larger gains for junior lawyers; on a later task done without AI, the advantage appeared only among senior lawyers. Not peer-reviewed.

shapingwork.mit.eduAdded Oct 7, 20260 opens

economics.mit.edu

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Automation and Repression (MIT Working Paper)

MIT economics working paper analyzing how automation technologies can be used to expand state surveillance and repression, and the economic conditions that make that more likely.

Why I recommend it: Dense, but the argument matters: the same tools sold as efficiency are also control tools. Read the introduction and conclusion first.

economics.mit.eduAdded Sep 5, 20260 opens