At this point, in the field of AI research:

- papers are written by AI (as pointed out in this article, and as obvious to anyone who spends a while actually reading recent AI research)

- papers are reviewed by AI (NeurIPS is doing an AI assisted review experiment - https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2026/ai-reviewing-experiment - and I feel the trend is moving towards AI reviewers whether we like it or not)

- papers are read, summarized and digested by AI, because there are just so many papers at leading AI conferences that nobody has time to eyeball them all

We are very rapidly automating humans out of the academic publication loop here.