July 25, 2026. Paper Permission: What Publisher AI Policies Allow and Practice Withholds AFS3.6: Paper Permission: What Publisher AI Policies Allow and Practice Withholds Names Paper Permission: a permission present in the text of publisher policy and largely absent from open pra…
Publisher policies on generative AI are usually read as restrictions. Read instead as a map of delegable work, they reserve for the human author a narrow core: the integrity of primary research images, and the warranty of the claims, by which we mean the cluster of human function…
Bioethics has debated human enhancement (prosthetics, brain-computer interfaces, cognitive offloading), charting the progressive mechanization of body and mind, while AI ethics has examined AI humanization: robotic embodiment, emotional simulation, legal personhood. These two tra…
The externalization of cognitive abilities to tools is not new. Writing externalized memory; calculators externalized computation; search engines externalized knowledge retrieval. Each generation lost the skills its predecessors possessed, naturalized its tools, and claimed autho…
This dataset records, for six major academic publishers, whether an author must disclose the use of a generative-AI tool for each of six manuscript-preparation tasks. Each answer is taken directly from the publisher’s own public author guidance, quoted at the end of this document…
A companion study to a prior analysis of publisher generative-AI policies found that major publishers converge on reserving a set of functions for human authors: verification, evidential judgment, interpretation, final approval, responsibility for correction, and legal and ethica…