AIAI-assisted writing, disclosure and author responsibility in peer review
AI help with prose should not be punished, argues @furongh, who announced an ICML 2027 program chair role. But reviewers should not have to spend hours on work its authors haven't checked or understood.
TLDR
Authors should read, check and understand their submissions whether AI was involved or not, @furongh argues while announcing an ICML 2027 program chair role. They support AI writing assistance, especially for non-native English speakers, but call for transparency when AI contributes meaningfully to ideas, experimental design or analysis. They also reject simply running papers through AI detectors as the answer, citing research on false positives. In a related article, they describe using AI to polish their own English prose—and note that the edited version does not always read better.