Scholarly authors are increasingly expected to disclose and describe their use of generative AI. In a commentary published in American Ethnologist, Marcel LaFlamme, Director of Research Policy and Scholarship at the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and Natalie Meyers, ARL/CNI AI Researcher in Residence, outlined emerging practices of AI disclosure and attribution. They considered how these practices might be adapted to anthropology’s distinctive epistemic and ethical commitments and recommended strategies for disclosure that build on existing norms in the discipline’s publishing culture.
Among the strategies proposed were openly sharing transcripts of prompt outputs alongside publications and recognizing writerly craft as part of the substance of scholarship in fields such as anthropology, rather than treating it as a secondary element. The authors also examined how expectations around AI disclosure are being codified by regulatory and professional bodies, situating decision making in anthropology within broader trends across other domains.
The accepted manuscript is freely available through the Open Anthropology Research Repository.
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