AI and Responsible Authorship

By Robert T. Pennock

Why my chatbot is not (yet) a coauthor.

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May-June 2024

Volume 112, Number 3
Page 148

DOI: 10.1511/2024.112.3.148

Suppose I do the experiments but use an artificial intelligence chatbot to write the report; should I list it as an author? If I only use the chatbot to flag typos or suggest fixes for grammatical errors, that question would never arise. But what if, to save time, I have the AI write the literature review section summarizing a set of articles I gave it? Now the words on the page are not my own. More significantly, what if I give it my experimental data to analyze and write up? As AI increases in power and capabilities, does it deserve credit as a coauthor?

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