New Article: “The Artificial Intelligence Disclosure (AID) Framework”

The article linked below appears in the November 2024 (85.10) issue of College & Research Libraries News.

Title

The Artificial Intelligence Disclosure (AID) Framework

Author

Kari D. Weaver
University of Waterloo

Source

College & Research Libraries News
Vol 85, No 10 (2024)

From the Article:

Within the contexts of education and research, and particularly within higher education, the citation has long been the standard tool for providing transparency and connection in the transfer of ideas across scholars, framing of arguments, and design of methodologies. Accordingly, as AI tools have grown in prominence, organizations that publish style manuals and guides have provided citation guidance to address the use of AI-generated content to inform education and research practice. The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education reinforces this practice through the themes Information Creation as a Process and Scholarship as Conversation, which directly address citation practices as an element of information literacy.

Unfortunately, citations do not fully meet the needs of today’s AI-enabled world. Citations emphasize the fixed form of a tangible output. This is incongruent with today’s generative AI systems, where the specific interplay of prompt, model, and model parameters creates a unique output that is not always repeatable, reproducible, or recallable, depending on the technology. Citations also focus on the ideas posed by an author, whereas generative AI can serve a variety of meaningful functions in the writing process, including researcher, editor, critic, collaborator, and more. While today’s citation practices do help provide some transparency, they are not sufficient, in and of themselves, to capture the varied ways AI tools function or are being used across contexts.

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The purpose of the Artificial Intelligence Disclosure (AID) Framework is to provide brief, targeted disclosure about the use of AI systems based on the range of activities used for research writing. The AID Statement is appended to the end of the paper (similar to an acknowledgments section), detailing the AI tools used and the manner in which they were used, based on the possible points of engagement through the writing process, as captured in the headings below. As generative AI tools may not be an author of scholarly work, overlap in categorization between CRediT and AID Framework have been edited as necessary to reflect this distinction.

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