Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere in today’s society, the news
and popular culture. The academic publishing sector is no exception.
Although AI is still an emerging technology, many publishers
are already productively employing AI and contributing to its
development in many ways. For its promise to be fulfilled and truly
improve research, science, technology, medicine and broader society,
AI has to be grounded in the values of trust and integrity fundamental
to scholarly communication. Several papers have addressed and
discussed the legal and ethical issues of AI. Building on these general
principles, STM (the international association for scientific, technical
and medical publishers) felt that it would be worthwhile to delve into
AI and in 2019 the association formed a working group to explore the
specific perspectives that the STM community brings to the issues
raised by AI. This White Paper brings together the working group’s
current thinking on how STM publishers contribute to the ethical and
trustworthy development, deployment, and application of AI. The
paper is not intended to be exhaustive; rather it aspires to contribute to
the ongoing discussion on how to move forward with this technology.
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