Confidence is a distinct advantage in evolution – and, according to a new research paper from Germany, also an advantage when a scientific paper is getting reviewed by Large Language Models (LLMs) instead of an author’s peers (an increasingly frequent necessity, as the volume of science papers balloons thanks to the productivity gains under AI). The new study finds that AI (i.e., non-human) reviewers consistently give higher scores to scientific papers that are written in confident, assertive…