Peer review¶
Csiszar, A. (2016). Peer review: Troubled from the start. Nature, 532, 306-308.
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Primes¶
- Red Teaming In Strategy
- AI safety: structured adversarial probing of models for unsafe behaviour, jailbreaks, and dangerous-capability elicitation that a deployment review would miss. Nuclear and aerospace review: independent design-review boards, devil's-advocate panels, and dissimilar-redundancy challenge teams, whose breakdown is cited in major accident reports. Corporate strategy: pre-mortems, devil's-advocate appointments, and dedicated competitor-strategy red teams. Policy review: legislative scrutiny committees, regulatory-impact review, and independent budgetary offices operating as institutional red teams on executive policy. Academic peer review: the canonical structural red team in science, with role-separation, authority, and consequential feedback all institutionalised in journal practice.
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Csiszar traces how journal refereeing became an institution, with referees holding authority over a manuscript's fate and later cast as gatekeepers.
“reimagined as a sort of universal gatekeeper”
- The prime's capture prediction explains a core design choice — reviewer anonymity exists precisely so the authors cannot retaliate against or domesticate their critic, preserving the independence the structure depends on.
This sourceEstablishes that anonymity in peer review exists to protect reviewers (especially junior ones) from retaliation and to elicit candid critique.
- AI safety: structured adversarial probing of models for unsafe behaviour, jailbreaks, and dangerous-capability elicitation that a deployment review would miss. Nuclear and aerospace review: independent design-review boards, devil's-advocate panels, and dissimilar-redundancy challenge teams, whose breakdown is cited in major accident reports. Corporate strategy: pre-mortems, devil's-advocate appointments, and dedicated competitor-strategy red teams. Policy review: legislative scrutiny committees, regulatory-impact review, and independent budgetary offices operating as institutional red teams on executive policy. Academic peer review: the canonical structural red team in science, with role-separation, authority, and consequential feedback all institutionalised in journal practice.
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