Artificial Intelligence in Academia

• Consult Utilisation des systèmes d’intelligence artificielle à Polytechnique dans les activités académiques (in French only).

• The Direction des affaires académique et de l’expérience étudiante (DAAEE) issued guidelines for using generative AI tools (in French only).

Generally, publishers do not accept large language models (LLMs) as authors of a research article. In addition, they mention in their policies the acceptable usage and ask that the use of AI tools be disclosed.

Many major publishers do not allow peer reviewers to use AI tools in the review process.

● Springer Nature

"Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, do not currently satisfy our authorship criteria. Notably an attribution of authorship carries with it accountability for the work, which cannot be effectively applied to LLMs. Use of an LLM should be properly documented in the Methods section (and if a Methods section is not available, in a suitable alternative part) of the manuscript. The use of an LLM (or other AI-tool) for “AI assisted copy editing” purposes does not need to be declared.[...] These AI-assisted improvements may include wording and formatting changes to the texts, but do not include generative editorial work and autonomous content creation. In all cases, there must be human accountability for the final version of the text and agreement from the authors that the edits reflect their original work."

● IEEE

"The use of content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in an article (including but not limited to text, figures, images, and code) shall be disclosed in the acknowledgments section of any article submitted to an IEEE publication. The AI system used shall be identified, and specific sections of the article that use AI-generated content shall be identified and accompanied by a brief explanation regarding the level at which the AI system was used to generate the content. The use of AI systems for editing and grammar enhancement is common practice and, as such, is generally outside the intent of the above policy. In this case, disclosure as noted above is recommended."

● Elsevier

"Where authors use generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process, these technologies should only be used to improve readability and language of the work. [...] The authors are ultimately responsible and accountable for the contents of the work."

● arXiv

"By signing their name as an author of a paper, they each individually take full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. If generative AI language tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s)."

● Other editors: Wiley, PLOS ONE.