Foreword: Peering forward, Part II

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Notes

1 Thank you to my colleague and CLAR Editorial Board member, Ken Mills, for his astute comments on a rougher version of this Foreword, also for pointing me to Ben Wakeman’s writing (noted below). For my earlier piece on peer review, see Dana Leibsohn, ‘Foreword: Peering forward.’ Colonial Latin American Review 32 (3): 307–11.

2 Taylor & Francis, the publisher of CLAR, has issued AI guidelines for both authors and reviewers. On the review side, instructions are explicit ‘Reviewers must not use artificial intelligence tools to generate manuscript review reports, including LLM based tools like ChatGPT.’ See, ‘Guidelines for peer reviewers,’ at https://editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/reviewer-guidelines/ . On content creation, see, for instance, ‘Taylor & Francis clarifies responsible use of AI tools in academic content creation,’ 17 February 2023. Accessible at: https://newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/taylor-francis-clarifies-the-responsible-use-of-ai-tools-in-academic-content-creation/. Both sites last accessed 16 May 2024.

3 Some readers will rightly point out there exists a whole of field of expert systems which dates from the post-WWII period.

4 All quotes and paraphrases come from a series of conversations I had with versions of Open AI’s Chat GPT early in May 2024.

5 For those interested in an advocate’s position, and particularly an argument for self-training AI, see for instance, Ben Wakeman, ‘AI denial? It’s time to get over yourself.’ Catch and Release 5 April 2024. Accessed 20 May 2024 at https://www.catchrelease.net/p/ai-denial-its-time-to-get-over-yourself.

6 See, for instance, 'Who are peer-reviewers.' Accessible at: https://editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/managing-peer-review-process/who-are-peer-reviewers-andwhy-do-they-do-it/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=EmailStudio&utm_campaign=JTE44570+May+2024+PPP_4946759&utm_id=. Last accessed 29 May 2024.