A Critical Examination of the Ethics of AI-Mediated Peer Review

Understand

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) systems, including large language models like ChatGPT, offer promise and peril for scholarly peer review.

• On the one hand, AI can enhance efficiency by addressing issues like long publication delays.
• On the other hand, it brings ethical and social concerns that could compromise the integrity of the peer review process and outcomes.
• However, human peer review systems are also fraught with related problems, such as biases, abuses, and a lack of transparency, which already diminish credibility.