8-Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The growth in Generative AI presents both opportunities and challenges in academic writing. BER believes in transparent academic writing along with a justified use of AI through its AI policy. Following are the acceptable / nonacceptable AI-based activities that authors must abide by, and it should clearly be stated if those activities were undertaken.
8.1 Acceptable AI activities:
- Language improvements within the manuscript.
- Translation of an author’s original work into a secondary language for inclusion in the manuscript.
- Refinement of the presentation of data reported in the manuscript.
- Generation of images, figures, or other diagrams in the manuscript for illustrative purposes only.
- Visualization or refinement of research data/results in the manuscript. It also includes refinement of the presentation code used in the research process.
- Suggest references to include in the manuscript’s bibliography.
8.2 Nonacceptable AI activities:
- Using AI tools to generate text from prompts or generate summaries of text.
- Using AI tools to analyze or summarize textual documents as part of the research process.
- Translation of materials (such as source documents) as part of the research process, unrelated to manuscript preparation
- Using AI tools for data manipulation, i.e., any generation, correcting, or editing of data used as part of the research process
- Editing of visualizations of actual data or results, portraying generated images as research outputs in themselves or as representing research outputs.
- Using AI tools to generate new code for use in research processes, or alter the functionality of code used in research processes before manuscript submission.
- Using AI tools to generate plausible-sounding references that do not exist.
