Alignment Journal turns peer review into an alignment experiment
AI alignment research is getting a new gatekeeper, but not a conventional one. The Alignment Journal is building a fast, high-rigor venue with an eight-person senior editorial board, public reviewer abstracts, expert matching, and paid reviews, then plans to open submissions more broadly in October. That makes peer review itself part of the experiment: can better incentives and clearer editorial judgment surface useful work without importing academia’s slow, opaque machinery?