AAAI reviewers will be working as free annotators for OpenAI
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"[...] To address these challenges [receiving 30,948 submissions], AAAI 2026 is piloting an innovative AI-assisted review system using a *large frontier reasoning model from OpenAI* [...] *Authors, reviewers, and committee members will provide feedback on the AI reviews*.""
You should read it as *Authors, reviewers, and committee members will be working for free as annotators for OpenAI*, an extremely sad and shortsighted decision from AAAI committee.
Instead of charging large corporations for paper submissions (in contrast to charging for participation), to keep them from swarming AI conferences and exploit free work of reviewers all over the world, AAAI decided to sell free, unpaid reviewers time to OpenAI, modern version of intellectual slavery. Good luck getting high quality human reviews on AAAI 2026 onwards.