GoKawiilDebate grows over AI's role in scientific authorship and accountability
A commentary examines how generative AI tools, now used to summarize literature, draft text and respond to peer reviewers, are complicating traditional notions of who counts as an author on a scientific paper. The piece argues that authorship has always been a socially constructed status tied to accountability and trust, not just credit, and that AI's growing role in writing, review and publishing workflows demands deliberate public debate rather than decisions based on convenience or cost.