Enacting AI disclosure in scholarly publishing

Abstract

Over the past three years, disclosure statements have emerged as scholarly publishing's initial attempt to square the disruptive impact of AI with existing norms of authorship and research integrity. By requiring these statements of submitting authors, publishers aim to ensure that the intervention of AI tools does not go unremarked and that editors, reviewers, and readers have the knowledge they need to critically evaluate the works they encounter. This commentary considers the evolution and limitations of AI disclosure by scholarly authors, and connects these developments to attitudes on writerly craft and trends toward the open sharing of research processes in social/cultural anthropology.