By every measure, Opus 4.8 beats human experts as peer reviewers in a study of 124 Harvard social science papers covering a range from statistical analyses to formal models to qualitative work.

Link to the paper: https://gking.harvard.edu/peerless/ Seems like all of the complaints about AI generated reviews being low quality don’t stand up to scrutiny.

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2026-10-23 04:37 · r/OpenAI
By every measure, Opus 4.8 beats human experts as peer reviewers in a study of 124 Harvard social science papers covering a range from statistical analyses to formal models to qualitative work.
2026-10-23 04:34 · r/artificial
By every measure, Opus 4.8 beats human experts as peer reviewers in a study of 124 Harvard social science papers covering a range from statistical analyses to formal models to qualitative work.

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