AI, Authorship, and Intellectual Freedom: Selected Reading

Scholarship and essays on human judgment, AI assistance, disclosure, and freedom of inquiry, representing a range of perspectives.

Thinking, authorship, creative work

• Thinking is not only writing — Brian D. Earp, Anne-Sophie Guernon, and Sebastian Porsdam Mann. Nature Reviews Bioengineering (2026).
• Is AI-Produced Humanities Scholarship a Case of Research Misconduct? — Thomas Metcalf. Journal of Academic Ethics (2026).
• Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art — Ted Chiang. The New Yorker (2024).
• ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web — Ted Chiang. The New Yorker (2023).

Disclosure, transparency, accountability

• The transparency dilemma: How AI disclosure erodes trust — Oliver Schiller and Martin Reimann. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (2025).
• Normalising transparency: an argument for requiring generative AI use declarations in all manuscripts—with a call for commentaries — Brian D. Earp et al. Journal of Medical Ethics (2026).
• Disclosing artificial intelligence use in scientific research and publication: When should disclosure be mandatory, optional, or unnecessary? — David B. Resnik and Mohammad Hosseini. Accountability in Research (2026).
• Disclosing generative AI use for writing assistance should be voluntary — Mohammad Hosseini, Bert Gordijn, Gregory E. Kaebnick, and Kristi Holmes. Research Ethics (2025).
• Is Undisclosed LLM Use Morally Wrong? — Siavosh Sahebi and Thomas Montefiore. Philosophy & Technology (2026).
• Explaining the Wrongs of Undisclosed LLM Use: Reply to Sahebi and Montefiore — Thomas Metcalf. Philosophy & Technology (2026).

Privacy, academic freedom, education

• Science in a Free Society: excerpt on education and intellectual authority — Paul Feyerabend (1978). Reproduced as “Modern education as imposition.”
• Against mandatory prompt disclosure in AI-assisted scholarship — Brian D. Earp, Udo Schüklenk, Julian Savulescu, and Sebastian Porsdam Mann. AI & Society (2026).
• Generative AI detection in higher education assessments — Cesare Giulio Ardito. New Directions for Teaching and Learning (2025).
• Protecting the Thinking Process in Human-AI Interaction: The Forum Interstitiale Between Thought and Expression — Caroline De Cock. Preprint (2026).
• Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions — American Association of University Professors. Report (2025).