Scholarly authors are increasingly expected to disclose and describe their use of generative AI. In a commentary published in American Ethnologist, ARL Director of Research Policy and Scholarship Marcel LaFlamme and ARL/CNI AI Researcher in Residence Natalie Meyers sketch emerging practices of AI disclosure and attribution, consider how these practices might be adapted to address the field of anthropology’s distinctive epistemic and ethical commitments, and recommend strategies for AI disclosure that build on existing norms in anthropological publishing.
The strategies they propose include openly sharing transcripts of prompt outputs alongside publications and recognizing writerly craft as part of the substance of scholarship in fields like anthropology, rather than a mere wrapper for data. Looking beyond publishers’ policies, Marcel and Natalie also examine how the expectation to disclose AI use is being codified by regulatory and professional bodies, contextualizing decision-making in any given scholarly field with respect to relevant trends in other domains.
The accepted manuscript is freely available via the Open Anthropology Research Repository.
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