The Benefits and Challenges to Academic Publishing in a World of Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

As an academic community, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has turned our world upside down in almost all respects in recent years. It assists us in undertaking research, delivering teaching and designing our assessments, but at the same time it creates massive hurdles in terms of ensuring the authenticity of academic work. As journal editors we now face a further challenge on top of those previously experienced with regard to maintaining the integrity, ethics and robustness of the research we publish: the uses and possible abuses of AI in content creation. In this editorial we examine the benefits that AI has brought, but also the dark sides that must now be considered. We propose some directions forward that as an academic community may be essential for our survival in a world of ever- greater demands on our time in the context of funding cuts.