Emad Mostaque
Founder of Intelligent Internet and author of The Last Economy.
“The peer review process has held up science, and it's terrible and awful. … has been one of the worst things we have for science, which should be an iterative open process where we explore and the marketplace of ideas wins. … now we all have AIs to be able to check these things and we should reward putting out ideas that have merit and we should also reward replication of ideas … I hope it kills the peer review process and we all become peers.”
Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Tech Strategy & Big Tech · October 2026
Context
A viewer asked whether peer review can keep up as AI speeds up scientific research. The answer: peer review gates ideas through a few gatekeepers, and AI checking plus rewarded replication could replace it.
Transcript
dogs. I guess you could, you know, if they have artificial wombs at Colossal, they can, you know, sort of like put thousands into development at once. Okay, Dave, let's see. You've got number five or number eight.
…be dependent on TSMC. But ultimately, this will be vertically integrated across all of them. And NVIDIA has their own models. They're not good yet, but they have their own models. So they're all going to end up competing, and those margins have to come down. So heck yes, that could happen for sure.
…be the opposite of it because we should be putting out ideas into the world like for example my take a high level on Alex's chain theory is I haven't absorbed it because he spent far more time than me but I think the base is a far better thing than string theory because it's actually more reasonable and I think a lot of it is reasonable but how will it win in the marketplace of ideas because now we all have AIs to be able to check these things and we should reward putting out ideas that have merit and we should also reward replication of ideas and more because so much of science unfortunately is unfortunately just made up which is the craziest thing of all so I I hope it kills the peer review process and we all become peers. Yeah. And the thing about the peer review process is if you're an expert in the field and some disruption comes along, you're no longer the expert in the
field. And there's an absolute incentive to slow things down. All right. Gentlemen, anybody listening? Wait, I have a comment. I have to say something. Please. I want to make a comment about my religion comment from last episode. What is it? So you want to walk him back, Salim?
Is that what you're saying? He's muted
himself.
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