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

Published: 09/29/2026, 12:00 AM

Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK. Search author on: PubMed Google Scholar 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. Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+, our best-value online-access subscription Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout AI scientists are changing research — institutions, funders and publishers must respond When AI does science, who is accountable for mistakes? When AI does science, who is accountable for mistakes? ‘A waste of time for all of us’: caught in the crossfire of the peer-review wars