GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (GenAI) POLICY

EDUKASI

EDUKASI recognizes the growing use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) technologies in scholarly communication. This policy provides guidance for authors, editors, editorial staff, and reviewers regarding the responsible, transparent, and ethical use of GenAI in research and publication activities.

1. General Principles

Academic integrity, originality, and transparency remain fundamental principles of scholarly publishing. The use of GenAI should support, rather than replace, human critical thinking, scientific reasoning, and academic writing.

Authors, editors, and reviewers remain fully responsible for all decisions, interpretations, and published content.

2. Guidelines for Authors

Permitted Use of GenAI

Authors may use GenAI tools to improve language quality, readability, grammar, spelling, and manuscript organization.

Mandatory Attribution and Transparency

Authors must disclose any use of GenAI tools in the manuscript. The disclosure should include the name of the tool and its specific purpose.

AI Cannot Be an Author

GenAI systems cannot be listed as authors or co-authors because they cannot assume responsibility for scholarly work.

Author Responsibility

Authors remain fully responsible for verifying the accuracy, originality, citations, references, and conclusions contained in AI-assisted content.

Data Confidentiality

Authors must not upload confidential, sensitive, proprietary, or unpublished data to public AI platforms.

3. Guidelines for Editors and Editorial Staff

• Editors may use AI tools to improve workflow efficiency and administrative processes.
• Confidential manuscripts must not be uploaded to public AI platforms.
• AI-assisted plagiarism or content-detection tools may be used as supporting instruments only.
• Editorial decisions must always involve human judgment and responsibility.
• Editorial decision-making must never be fully automated.

4. Guidelines for Peer Reviewers

• Reviewers must maintain strict confidentiality of manuscripts.
• Reviewers are prohibited from uploading any manuscript content to GenAI systems.
• Peer-review reports must be prepared independently.
• Scientific evaluation must be based on reviewer expertise and professional judgment.
• AI tools must not replace the reviewer’s critical assessment of the manuscript.

5. Prohibited Practices

• Listing GenAI tools as authors or co-authors.
• Uploading confidential manuscripts to public AI systems.
• Using AI-generated content without disclosure.
• Delegating editorial decisions to AI systems.
• Delegating peer-review decisions to AI systems.
• Using AI-generated references without verification.

Closing Statement

This policy aims to promote the responsible and transparent use of Generative Artificial Intelligence while preserving the integrity, credibility, and trustworthiness of scholarly publishing.

EDUKASI encourages all stakeholders to follow internationally recognized ethical standards and recommendations issued by publication ethics organizations, including COPE.