UK research integrity body wants more focus on AI

“Significant attention has not yet been given” to AI impact, warns Committee on Research Integrity

Better standards and policies on the use of generative artificial intelligence in research are required to show it is trustworthy and protect the UK’s research system, according to the UK Committee on Research Integrity. 

In its second annual statement, the committee—which is overseen by the national funding agency UK Research and Innovation—says that while funders, publishers, research organisations and discipline-specific bodies are responding to the opportunities and challenges generative AI poses, “significant attention has not yet been given to the impact of this technology on research integrity”.