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  • Scholarly publishing ethics
  • Artificial intelligence in research

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  • The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) states artificial intelligences (AIs) cannot author papers due to lack of accountability.
  • COPE's stance implies an 'answerability' definition of responsibility.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the role of responsibility in academic authorship.
  • To propose alternative criteria for authorship in light of AI advancements.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of responsibility in scientific authorship.
  • Review of current publication ethics guidelines.

Main Results:

  • AIs cannot fulfill the 'answerability' criterion for authorship.
  • Responsibility in the sense of answerability is not a prerequisite for scientific authorship.

Conclusions:

  • Publication ethics may need to drop or revise the responsibility criterion for authorship.
  • Three options are proposed: dropping responsibility, retaining it (excluding AIs), or requiring local responsibility for intellectual contributions.