Permitted assistance
Contributors may use AI tools for brainstorming, outlining, editing, grammar, translation support, code review, research organization, or clarity checks. Editors may use tools for administrative support and quality review.
Human responsibility
The named author is responsible for every claim, source, quote, example, code sample, image, disclosure, and conclusion. The final work must reflect the author's actual understanding, judgment, and voice. AI output must be checked rather than assumed correct.
Unacceptable use
- Untouched or lightly edited AI-generated filler presented as original expertise.
- Fabricated sources, citations, quotes, events, benchmarks, credentials, or experiences.
- Submitting generated code the author cannot explain or has not reasonably reviewed.
- Using AI to imitate another writer, conceal plagiarism, or evade rights and disclosure obligations.
- Uploading confidential, private, embargoed, client, employer, or personal data to tools without authorization.
Disclosure
Routine spelling or grammar assistance generally does not require disclosure. Material use of generative AI in reporting, analysis, images, data, code, experiments, or quoted interactions should be disclosed when it affects how a reasonable reader would understand the work.
Editorial action
We may request source material, code, revision history, methodology, or clarification. Work may be rejected, corrected, labeled, or removed when AI use creates reliability, originality, privacy, safety, or rights concerns.