New webinar: Authorship in the era of AI
Posted on 20th May, 2025
Join a free online discussion on how we think about ‘authorship’ for AI-assisted writing, where the boundaries might lie, and what the future might look like.
📆 June 6th 2025
🕐 2 – 3:30pm BST
Sign up: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/authorship-in-the-era-of-ai-tickets-1323581220059
With the rapid growth of AI tools over the past three years, there has been a corresponding rise in the number of academics and students using them in their own writing. While it is generally agreed that we still expect people to be the “authors” of their work, deciding how to interpret that is often a nuanced and subjective decision by the writer.
This panel discussion will look at how we think about ‘authorship’ for AI-assisted writing – what are these tools used for in different contexts? Where might readers and publishers draw their own lines as to what is still someone’s own work? And how might we see this develop over time?
Speakers:
- Dhara Snowden, Textbook publisher at UCL Press
- Ayanna Prevatt-Goldstein, Head of the UCL Academic Communications Centre
- Rachel Safer, Executive Publisher for Ethics & Integrity at OUP and a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics
This session is open to all.
About the Festival of Open Science and Scholarship
The Festival of Open Science and Scholarship is organised by teams at UCL, LSE and the Francis Crick Institute. Running from 2-6 June the festival includes a combination of online, hybrid, and in-person events across a range of topics including:
- Special collections and co-production
- AI and its impact on authorship
- Open Research in the Age of Populism
- Scaling up Diamond OA journals
- Reproducibility and qualitative research
- Navigating data sharing with personal data
The full programme and booking is available via the Open@UCL blog.