Opinion | Who Cares Whether Academics Use AI to Write?

· The Chronicle of Higher Education ·

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A professional journal recently accepted an article of mine. The editor congratulated me on the acceptance and then made an unusual request. Could I submit another draft written “in my voice,” since this one had some sentences that “read like something written by AI”? If I preferred, the editors would revise the piece themselves, ostensibly to “humanize” it, and I could approve their changes.

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About the Author

Allison Stanger is a professor of political science at Middlebury College.