I agree that the creation of incentives is a good framing for the problem. I wanted to notice some things though:
Academics often have much more freedom to research what they want, and most incentives are number of publications or citations. Since you can publish AIS papers in standard top conferences, I do not see a big problem, although I might be wrong, of course.
Changing the incentives is either more difficult (changing protocols at universities or government bodies?) or just giving money, which the community seems to be doing already.
That’s what makes me think that the academic interest is more of a bottleneck, but I am not superinformed.
I agree that the creation of incentives is a good framing for the problem. I wanted to notice some things though:
Academics often have much more freedom to research what they want, and most incentives are number of publications or citations. Since you can publish AIS papers in standard top conferences, I do not see a big problem, although I might be wrong, of course.
Changing the incentives is either more difficult (changing protocols at universities or government bodies?) or just giving money, which the community seems to be doing already. That’s what makes me think that the academic interest is more of a bottleneck, but I am not superinformed.