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A sensible policy about refereeing in the age of AI

Philosopher J.P. Messina (Purdue) kindly gave permission to share what he posted on FB recently, and it seems to me his policy is a good one:

I have refereed two papers this week that were pretty clearly written or heavily revised by LLMs. New policy: unless editors have an AI-use policy which requires AI-use disclosure and checks for obvious signs of non-disclosed use, and unless author’s disclosure is shared with reviewers, I will not be accepting their referee requests. For context, in each of the last three years, I’ve refereed 20-30 papers for a variety of journals. But if your journal can’t be bothered with doing basic work to check for academic integrity, I can’t be bothered with ensuring that work submitted to it meets whatever ‘standards’ remain. And for “authors”: except in rare cases, if you don’t have time to write it, I don’t have to time to read it.

What do readers (and journal editors) think? Are there other approaches that referees should consider?

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