AI Transparency Policy

The Society makes considered use of artificial intelligence in support of its scholarly and member-facing work. Such use is institutional in character and is governed by the same standards that govern the rest of the Society's editorial and operational conduct.

Machine assistance within the Society's surfaces is bounded to four canonical roles, each with a distinct institutional character. These roles correspond to the Society's conceptual models for Search, Retrieval, Recommendation, and AI Assistance.

Authorship of the Society's editorial works rests with the human authors who compose them. Machine assistance does not constitute authorship and is not credited as such within the Society's publications.

Where machine assistance materially shapes the presentation of material to a member — for example, by ordering search results or by surfacing related works — the institutional character of that assistance is acknowledged through the Society's editorial practice and through this Policy.

The Society does not employ machine systems to make consequential decisions about members in the absence of human review. The Society does not employ machine systems to fabricate scholarship under the Society's name.

This Policy is to be read together with the Editorial Standards, the Publication Ethics, and the Privacy Policy. It is continuous with — and does not redefine or supersede — the Society's conceptual Search, Retrieval, Recommendation, and AI Assistance Models.