Publishers lack AI chatbot policies

Many scholarly publishers still don’t have policies on whether researchers can submit papers written by artificial intelligence chatbots like ChatGPT . Jeremy Y. Ng, a metascientist who works at the Centre for Journalology at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, and colleagues audited the publicly available policies of 163 members of the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM). Of those 163 members, only 56 had a policy on whether authors can submit papers written by AI chatbots (medRxiv 2024, DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.19.24309148 ). Forty-nine of those 56 publishers required authors to declare when they used chatbots, and none allowed researchers to list AI tools like ChatGPT as an author. “The use of AI chatbots in academic publishing is a new and rapidly evolving space,” Ng says. “The absence of industry-wide standards or guidelines also contributes to the slow adoption.” The American Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry,