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Why AI-authorship debates miss a deeper shift in how scholarly knowledge is produced

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  1. Phil Hutchinson

    1. Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK.

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Robert Braun proposes that artificial-intelligence use be reported when AI tools materially shaped a scholarly contribution (see Nature 657, 34–36; 2026). But authorship-contribution taxonomies might be too coarse for a growing form of AI use: sustained intellectual interaction.

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Nature 658, 286 (2026)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-03055-6

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