AI Tools Join Peer Review

Economics journals are piloting Refine, an AI that scans papers and appendices for mistakes; its creators say it found problems in roughly a third of already‑refereed papers. If adopted widely, such tools could change referee workloads, raise the bar for reproducibility, and shift editorial responsibility toward automated checks. — Widespread use of AI in peer review would reshape scientific credibility, publication incentives, and how errors or 'sloppiness' are discovered and punished across disciplines.