AI-generated text is overwhelming institutions – setting off a no-win ‘arms race’ with AI detectors

People are using generative AI to flood courts with filings, legislatures with constituent letters and publications with submissions. AI detectors are no silver bullet.

By: Bruce Schneier, Harvard Kennedy School and Nathan Sanders, Harvard University, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: February 5, 2026

Words: 1,371

Last Updated: 1 month, 1 week ago

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By Bruce Schneier, Harvard Kennedy School and Nathan Sanders, Harvard University

In 2023, the science fiction literary magazine Clarkesworld stopped accepting new submissions because so many were generated by artificial intelligence. Near as the editors could tell, many submitters pasted the magazine’s detailed story guidelines into an AI and sent in the results. And they weren’t alone. Other fiction magazines have also reported a high number of AI-generated submissions.

This is only one example …

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