How to break the publication queue spell: the blueprints are finally on the table

Reformatting, resubmitting, waiting - the publication queue is getting longer every year while the architecture holding it together dates back to 2001. Luciano Floridi proposes a way out: a journal built from scratch around AI agents that absorb all procedural work, leaving editors free to do what only they can do - certify research. The technology already exists; the only question is who moves first.

Wag the Dog, or Who we are when we write with AI

Writing with AI is never a single exchange but thousands of reiterations that force us to articulate what we actually think. The familiar "co-piloting" metaphor misses this; a closer model is a challenging advisership where we are sometimes the professor guiding a brilliant but rigid student, sometimes the student pushing against a rigid professor. Either way, the interaction changes us: our concepts, our assumptions, our authorial "I."