Monday, July 20, 2026

A Trap for AI Use in Peer Reviews Sparks Controversy at upcoming NIPS 2026

More news on the propagating controversy over the use of AI in scientific research!

NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) is one of the preeminent conferences of the ML & AI research community! NIPS was renamed in 2018 to NeurIPS to accommodate ideological preferences!

"Organizers of a prominent ... conference are facing pushback on social media after adding hidden prompts to their papers to catch peer reviewers who are using generative artificial intelligence (AI) to referee papers.

The 40th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)—which is slated to take place in Sydney, Australia, in December 2026—bans peer reviewers from uploading papers they referee to AI chatbots, as the practice breaches confidentiality. Reviewers can still use AI chatbots for background research purposes, according to the policy outlined in the conference’s handbook.

To enforce the policy and catch illicit AI use in peer review, the event’s organizers have included deliberately concealed instructions for large language models (LLMs) in papers sent out for peer review. ..."

A Trap for AI Use in Peer Reviews Sparks Controversy | The Scientist "Conference organizers secretly inserted hidden prompts into papers to catch peer reviewers using artificial intelligence tools, stirring up criticism on social media."

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