Authorship should follow contribution, but AI still cannot be named as a co-author
CsabaSzepesvari · x · 2026-07-23
The author argues that authorship should be decided by the actual contribution, not by whether a participant was human or AI.
The punchline is that this principle is reasonable in practice, but it exposes a strange gap in current norms: the AI system itself is not listed as a co-author. The post suggests that this may eventually have to change as AI systems become more deeply involved in research workflows.
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