What Happens When CHI Reaches 30,000 Submissions in 2030? Preparing for the Tsunami of AI-Accelerated Papers
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Interactions
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journal-article
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2026-04-27
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the OECD has remained flat at 2.7 percent since 2020. c Proportional expansion of research capacity is not driving growth in submissions; more papers are being produced from roughly the same pool of resources. I have served on program committees long enough to recognize the early symptoms of this strain. Recruiting qualified reviewers is harder each cycle; the pool of willing experts does not grow at anywhere near the rate submissions do; review quality has become uneven, not because reviewers lack good intentions, but because the match between expertise, experience, and assigned papers loosens as numbers climb. AAAI 2026 acknowledged this development, noting that some reviewers would assess papers "adjacent to their core research fields rather than papers that perfectly match their expertise." Reviewer fatigue is real, it is growing, and it corrodes the care that good reviewing demands [1]. Additionally, many researchers carelessly use AI tools. I stumbled over many hallucinated references when reviewing for a large SIGCHI conference, which also has seen a 50 percent increase in submissions. And then there is the feedback loop: AI-assisted papers are increasingly reviewed by AI-assisted reviewers. Research [2] suggests that between 6.5 and 16.9 percent of peer review text at some AI conferences may have been substantially generated or modified by LLMs. arXiv has responded by tightening its rules for computer science, now requiring prior peer review for review articles and position papers, explicitly citing the flood of content that generative AI makes "fast and easy to write." Using AI to polish text is c https://bit.ly/4daQkPD
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Volume
33
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3
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