Enacting AI disclosure in scholarly publishing

Abstract

Scholarly authors are increasingly expected to disclose whether and, if so, how they have used generative AI in the preparation of a manuscript. In this commentary, we sketch a landscape of emerging AI disclosure and attribution practices and consider how they might be adapted to address anthropology’s distinctive epistemic and ethical commitments. We offer specific recommendations on strategies for AI disclosure that build on existing practices in anthropological publishing. We also look beyond publisher policies at how the expectation to disclose AI use is being codified across scales and sectors, in order to place disciplinary choicemaking in relation to relevant trends in other regulatory and professional domains.