AI Policy and Usage Declaration

Introduction

  1. AJLP makes a distinction between two uses of artificial intelligence in research: AI-assistance and AI-generation.

  2. AI-assistance is allowed but must be declared, whereas AI-generation is prohibited.

  3. AJLP does not allow an AI system to be named as a co-author.

 

AI-Assistance: Allowable

  1. Authors may use AI tools to assist in the research and editing of the articles.

  2. AI-assistance tools allowed include the following:

    1. Spelling checkers, grammar checkers and language tools, e.g. Grammarly and Quillbot

    2. AI chatbots to improve language with prompts such as “Improve the following scholarly writing without adding new content:”

    3. AI tools to generate graphics or diagrams or improve graphics, provided that such use is explicitly acknowledged with each diagram or graphics.

    4. Assistance in searching and summarising literature, e.g. Consensus and NotebookLM.

  3. The names of the AI tools used have to be declared.

  4. Authors are responsible to ensure that the content generated by AI tools is accurate and does not contain hallucination.

 

AI-Generation: Prohibited

  1. AJLP prohibits authors from using generative AI chatbots to generate text and pass it off as their work.

  2. This is akin to an instructor requiring students to write an essay and thereafter claiming the essays, whether partly or wholly, were written by the instructor.

  3. No declaration may absolve the author from such a prohibited act.

 

Declaration

  1. Authors need to make a declaration by selecting one of the following:

    1. No artificial intelligence tool has been used in the research and writing of this article.

    2. The following artificial intelligence tools have been used to assist in the research or editing of this article, but not to write, partly or wholly, the article: <names of AI tools>.