Editorial policies on the use of artificial intelligence (AI)

In the journal, the roles of editing, reviewing and authoring are in charge of human beings who can mediate the process of publishing scientific documents. In the exercise of these roles, people exercise responsible practices around scientific communication and do not use practices involving Artificial Intelligence (hereinafter AI). Therefore, Collectivus, Revista de Ciencias Sociales (CRCs) is subscribed to the Declaration of Heredia: Principles on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Publishing.

AI does not replace the responsibilities or accountability of the people who exercise these roles (editorial team, authors and evaluators). Additionally, editorial management does not depend exclusively on actions related to AI.

Publisher:

• Responsibility: The use of AI does not replace the responsibility of human beings or their accountability when exercising editing tasks or monitoring the actions of reviewers and authors who participate in the editions of the journal.
• Presentation of evidence: The Editorial Team of the journal will show when they have used AI in some part of the editorial process. The model name, version, date of use, as well as the assigned statement of work will be reported.
• Communication: It will be communicated to authors and readers, when, in view of transparency, editorial or review tasks have been supported by the use of AI.

Review Role

• Responsibility: This role is assumed only by the person in charge of reviewing the articles. Interaction with AI does not replace their expert judgment or accountability.
• Presentation of evidence: When the use of AI has been incorporated as a complement to the review, it is necessary to indicate it to the editorial team and, through them, to the authors. Indicate, at least, the name of the model, the version, the date of use, as well as the statement as an evaluation instruction is part of a transparent and traceable exercise of the content evaluation.
• Communication: Reviewers must be able to explain the interaction they have had with AI, what inputs they have received and how much of these inputs have been considered in the observations.

Role of authorship

• Responsibility: This role is exercised only by human beings. Thus, language models, Chatbots or generative AI cannot be considered authors, since they cannot comprehensively assume these three conditions.
• Presentation of evidence: Explicitly declaring the use of AI in research processes and the preparation of scientific texts during any stage of the scientific publication process is a sign of transparency that adds to good practices to guarantee the reproducibility of science.