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What is Sage's AI policy for editors?

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Artificial Intelligence Policy
- For Editors
Further information

Artificial Intelligence Policy

Sage recognises the value of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential to help authors in the research and writing process. Sage welcomes developments in this area to enhance opportunities for generating ideas, accelerating research discovery, synthesising, or analysing findings, polishing language, or structuring a submission.

Large language models (LLMs) or Generative AI offer opportunities for acceleration in research and its dissemination. While these opportunities can be transformative, they are unable to replicate human creative and critical thinking. Sage’s policy on the use of AI technology has been developed to assist authors, reviewers and editors to make good judgements about the ethical use of such technology.

For Editors

The use of AI or LLMs for Editorial work presents confidentiality and copyright issues. The tool or model will learn from what it receives over time and may use it to provide outputs to others.

AI assistance

Journal Editors maintain overall responsibility for the content published in their journal and act as gatekeepers of the scholarly record. Editors may use Generative AI tools for assistance in looking for suitable peer-reviewers.

Generative AI

Editors must not use ChatGPT or other Generative AI to generate decision letters, or summaries of unpublished research.

Undisclosed or Inappropriate use of Generative AI

If Editors suspect the use of ChatGPT or any other generative AI in a submitted manuscript or a submitted review, they should consider this policy in undertaking an editorial assessment of the matter or contact their Sage representative for advice.

Sage and the Journal Editor will lead a joint investigation into concerns raised about the inappropriate or undisclosed use of Generative AI in a published article. The investigation will be undertaken in accordance with guidance issued by COPE and our internal policies.