Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Google deployed an agentic AI peer-reviewer at two top CS conferences — reviewing ~10,000 papers with 30-minute turnaround — and the new formal

arXiv:2604.13940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific peer review faces mounting strain as submission volumes surge, making it increasingly difficult to sustain review

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<p>A state-of-the-art review of the first body of evidence on AI-assisted development was posted to arXiv on 20 Aug 2026. It is a preprint, not itself peer reviewed, though the