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Re:Show HN: AI Peer Reviewer – Multiagent System for Scienti... by spankibalt on Saturday May 31, 2025 @12:59PM (#44145539)
The AI pseudoagent[1], unless sentient and proficient in the chosen field of expertise, is not a peer. It's just a simulacrum of one. As such, it can only manifest simulacra of concepts such as "biases", "fairness", "accountability", etc.

The way I see it, it can function, at best, as a tool of text analysis, e. g. as part of augmented analytics engines in a CAQDAS.

1. Agents are defined as having agency, with sentience as an obvious prerequisite.

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Re:Show HN: AI Peer Reviewer – Multiagent System for Scienti... by rjakob on Saturday May 31, 2025 @02:48PM (#44146218)
We honestly didn’t think much about the term “AI peer reviewer” and didn’t mean to imply it’s equivalent to human peer review. We’ll stick to using “AI reviewer” going forward.
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Re:Show HN: AI Peer Reviewer – Multiagent System for Scienti... by nathan_compton on Sunday June 01, 2025 @12:35PM (#44152076)
Do you really thing of sentience being a prerequisite for agency? That doesn't seem to follow. Plants are agents in a fairly meaningful sense and yet I doubt they are sentient. I mean, AI's accept information and can be made to make decisions and act in the world. That seems like a very reasonable definition of agency to me.
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Re:Show HN: AI Peer Reviewer – Multiagent System for Scienti... by spankibalt on Monday June 02, 2025 @08:32PM (#44164947)
> Do you really thing of sentience being a prerequisite for agency?

Yes, I do. :)

> [...] and can be made to make decisions and act in the world.

"Have to be made". Then again, this is not just about agency but about peership.

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