Auyon Siddiq

Associate Professor @UCLAAnderson. Market design, digital platforms, AI. @UCBerkeley PhD.

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

New research: Is AI making employers view labor as more of a commodity?

In a large online labor market, we find that post-ChatGPT, clients place less weight on signals of human capital and more on price when hiring.

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

@BrendanNyhan @paulnovosad Just say no:

https://t.co/J8mYRymFt0

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

@buonbababuon yes, good thing he called dibs on a paper on... critiquing Al Roth's work on Moral Economics through the lens of Hindu philosophy before someone else did

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

Tenure is a helluva drug

[Todd Wallack @TWallack]

It's not just students using AI. A University of Chicago professor used AI to help produce over 200 papers so far this year, sparking concerns from other academics. https://t.co/IJ8Plapudz (gift link) @washingtonpost

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

@ShriramKMurthi Look I'd rather be known for my own research than somebody elses but ill take what i can get

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

There's a chaired, full professor at UChicago who has put out *200* papers in 2026 alone. And at least one has been submitted to a journal (so potentially many more).

They don't all cite each other though -- rookie mistake.

[Gautam Kamath @thegautamkamath]

I saw someone post a dozen+ AI slop papers purporting to solve niche open problems. This is antisocial behaviour and worse than if the problems stayed open.

0 people understand the solution, and there is no readable writeup. Also, incentive for either is removed.

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

@joefrancis505 hes *all of our* guy

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

Switch from desk-reject to desk-accept. All papers go into a repository and editors scan and select promising papers for review.

[Andrew Gordon Wilson @andrewgwils]

I'm a Program Chair for ICML 2027. We'd love any creative suggestions for a great conference! How to manage the explosion of AI slop and insane submission growth? How to manage reviewing? How to incentivize high quality creative work? How to reduce bureaucracy and overhead?

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

@alz_zyd_ my conjecture (ahem) is that the mathematization you describe is largely signaling and will reverse soon for obvious reasons. maybe ideas will become paramount again

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

@joshgans you still have time to delete this

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

@DarwinianVyas There may be eventually. But I think there's more self-restraint with journals, and the incentives are often different (e.g., many academic disciplines, like economics, are less volume-oriented than CS).

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

Calling the explosion of submissions at CS conferences the collapse of science is premature.

Most academic research operates through journals which are (currently) more resistant to the flood. If anything the flood is just exposing pre-existing flaws in the conference system.

[BURKOV @burkov]

This looks like the collapse of peer-reviewed science.

[Arthur Dent @ArthurCDent]

Don’t anthropomorphise LLMs, they hate that.

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

@benconomics @alexolegimas Does defrauding the university out of millions in salary and benefits by lying in your research not warrant firing?

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

@johnjhorton @XYHan_ bringing people together is what I do best

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

@XYHan_ https://t.co/TLtaLLZ397

see @johnjhorton's post from this morning

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

@TheStalwart how insufferable do you plan to be after your eventual vindication

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

@abhishekn sure

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

@heeney_luke so crisp

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

Take it a step further and make a course based on this book mandatory for econ phds:

[alz @alz_zyd_]

what should we put in instead? hard to say but I think there's a bit not enough linear programming in mathcamp. everyone should study some basic LPs. like the assignment problem

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

@danielrock it's just matrices all the way down

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

@petergklein @arpitrage always nice to see Salop shoutouts in the wild

[Auyon Siddiq @auyonymous]

@alz_zyd_ Am biased but learning about LP for the first time just rocked my world and changed my entire career trajectory