Research in the AI Era Seminar: Karu Sankaralingam, The Impact Market to Save Conference Peer Review

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Karu Sankaralingam

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Karu Sankaralingam (UW Madison / NVIDIA)

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This talk introduces the Impact Market, a market-based mechanism for conference peer review that decouples dissemination from credentialing. It proposes a multi-stage process that combines broad access to publication with longer-horizon, incentive-aligned evaluation to produce a more stable and interpretable signal of impact. This directly ties to the seminar’s theme by examining how AI-era scale and automation are pressuring us to redesign research incentives, review processes, and what “quality” and “contribution” should mean in the first place.

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