ICMJE and COPE on AI and authorship (2023)¶
Reference
Citation: COPE. "Authorship and AI tools," position statement (2023); ICMJE, "Recommendations" (2023). Type: guidance. Link: publicationethics.org/guidance/cope-position/authorship-and-ai-tools.
What it is¶
Editorial positions on the use of AI tools in scholarly writing. They hold that AI tools cannot be listed as authors, that their use must be disclosed, and that named human authors remain accountable.
Role in the record¶
- Grounds BP07: AI cannot be an author; AI use must be disclosed; humans remain accountable (settled editorial consensus).
Atom-level for/against detail and quotes are in the provenance data (assets/provenance.yml), keyed by practice atom.