A leading university press has unveiled its first artificial intelligence (AI) ethics policy, which will require authors to declare any use of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools.
Under the guidelines published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) on 14 March, researchers will also be banned from treating AI as an “author” of academic papers and books, following recent controversies in which ChatGPT was given an author byline in several journals.
The rules from CUP, which publishes about 400 journals and 1,500 monographs a year, also seek to clarify grey areas where text generation by an AI bot has led to plagiarism, sometimes unwittingly. Authors will be “accountable for the accuracy, integrity and originality of their research papers, including for any use of AI”, explain the new guidelines.
“Scholars have been told the work must be the author’s own, and they must not present others’ ideas, data, words or other material without adequate citation and transparent referencing,” they add.
