Pembroke Student Anuraag Vazirani co-authors paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence

Congratulations to Pembroke Student Anuraag Vazirani (MSt in Practical Ethics) who has co-authored a paper entitled “Guidelines for Ethical Use and Acknowledgement of Large Language Models in Academic Writing” that has been published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence. 

Anuraag is part of a team of researchers from Copenhagen, Oxford, Cambridge, Singapore, Stanford, and Harvard, many of whom are members of the International Collaborative Bioscience Innovation & Law (Inter-CeBIL) Programme.

Their paper offers a set of guidelines on the ethical usage of Generative AI/Large Language Models (think ChatGPT) for researchers preparing manuscripts for academic journals. The aim of these guidelines is to allow researchers to make the most of AI’s potential without jeopardising the integrity of their academic work and to ‘address concerns about plagiarism, authorship attribution, and the integrity of academic outputs.’ 

As one of the paper’s co-authors Professor Julian Savulescu (Oxford Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, and NUS Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics) puts it: "Large Language Models are the Pandora's Box for academic research. They could eliminate academic independence, creativity, originality and thought itself. But they could also facilitate unimaginable co-creation and productivity. These guidelines are the first steps to using LLMs responsibly and ethically in academic writing and research."

Read Oxford University’s article on the paper here and an article by the Times Higher Education here. 

The paper can be found online here.