From Shadow AI to Governed AI Review: A Commentary on “Fighting Fire with Fire: Infusing AI into Peer Review to Sustain Quality Scholarship”

This commentary responds to “Fighting Fire with Fire: Infusing AI into Peer Review to Sustain Quality Scholarship” [Bhargava et al. (2026) Management Sci. Forthcoming.]. It supports the paper’s call for a governed approach to the use of AI in peer review. It argues that the key issue is not whether AI will enter peer review, but whether its use will remain informal and hidden or become transparent, auditable, and institutionally accountable. While endorsing journal-managed AI review as a response to the problem of “shadow AI,” the comment highlights several implementation risks, including AI hallucination, human accountability, authors’ perceptions of procedural dignity, and the evolving boundary between structured assessment and value judgment. It concludes that AI-assisted peer review should be treated as an important starting point for continued experimentation and refinement. This commentary was accepted by Christoph Loch.

• 저널Management Science · 72(9) · 7396–7396
• 토픽Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education · Health Informatics
• DOI10.1287/mnsc.2026.02442
• 저자Zhenhui Jiang