{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-02-neurips-2026-position-track-ai-papers/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-06-02-neurips-2026-position-track-ai-papers/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-06-02-neurips-2026-position-track-ai-papers","date":"2026-06-02","date_precision":"day","short_title":"NeurIPS 2026: 28% of position-track submissions score 100% AI-written, and 178 are desk-rejected","deck":null,"takeaway":"NeurIPS 2026 organisers screened the position-paper track with Pangram.","category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":2,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"NeurIPS blog: AI-generated papers in the NeurIPS 2026 position paper track","url":"https://blog.neurips.cc/2026/06/02/ai-generated-papers-in-the-neurips-2026-position-paper-track/","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"blog.neurips.cc"}],"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["NeurIPS","Pangram Labs"],"title":"NeurIPS 2026: 28% of position-track submissions score 100% AI-written, and 178 are desk-rejected","summary":"NeurIPS 2026 organisers screened the position-paper track with Pangram. 273 of 969 submissions (28.2%) got a 100% AI score. 178 (18.4%) were desk-rejected and 123 more had to show evidence of human authorship. The track requires papers to be \"substantially written by human authors\".","key_facts":["273/969 (28.2%) position-track submissions had a Pangram AI score of 100%","Tiered response: 77 automatic desk rejects (score ≥ 0.9), 123 borderline (0.8–0.9) asked for evidence of human authorship, 22 rejected for denying AI use despite high scores","Appeals deadline 15 June 2026"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["peer-review","research-integrity","ai-generated-text","conferences"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nNeurIPS partnered with the AI-text detector Pangram to enforce a human-authorship rule on its position-paper track and published the numbers.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nIt was the first major ML venue to desk-reject papers at scale based on an AI-text detector. That is a precedent for detector-based enforcement, with the usual false-positive risks.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2026-05-14-arxiv-one-year-ban-unchecked-ai","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-14-arxiv-one-year-ban-unchecked-ai/","date":"2026-05-14","date_precision":"day","short_title":"arXiv will ban authors for a year if they post unchecked LLM-generated content","deck":null,"takeaway":"arXiv is the main distribution channel for AI and math research.","category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":3,"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-10-29","orgs":["arXiv"]},{"id":"2025-11-27-iclr-2026-ai-reviews-openreview-leak","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-11-27-iclr-2026-ai-reviews-openreview-leak/","date":"2025-11-27","date_precision":"day","short_title":"21% of ICLR 2026 peer reviews flagged as fully AI-written; a bug exposes reviewers","deck":null,"takeaway":"It was the clearest sign yet that LLMs had overwhelmed the peer-review system of the field that builds them.","category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":4,"official":2,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["ICLR","OpenReview","Pangram Labs"]}],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-09-29","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-09-29","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-09-29","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-04"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":33,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"gemini-4-hydrogen","name":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":63,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":2,"in_training_data":false}],"short_url":null}