AI in Peer Review: Practices & Policies

“The key question is not whether AI is used, but how it is used.” That’s from Springer Nature’s policy on using AI when peer reviewing for its journals. Wiley tells its journal referees: “Use AI responsibly: Apply best practices and properly disclose AI use in manuscripts and peer review.” That’s right: two of the largest academic publishers allow referees to use AI when reviewing submissions to their journals. Springer has created a “risk-assessment framework for AI use in peer review” to provide some further guidance: Springer Nature’s “AI Risk Assessment Framework for AI Use in Peer Review” Wiley provides fewer details, saying only that ” Manuscripts under review are confidential and must not be uploaded to AI Technologies, whether in full or in part.” But it seems have a workaround for this in development—at least that’s how I interpret them following a brief list of what editors and reviewers can “do safely” with AI with the announcement that they’re “developing new approaches…