Political Science Publishing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

This panel explores the contemporary challenges brought to political science publishing by the latest development in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Since Large Language Models (LLMs) software such as ChatGPT has become widely available to the public, scholars from several disciplines reported an increase in unethical behaviour such as generating bogus research and even peer-reviews with LLM tools. Within this context, this panel aims primarily to assess to what extent political science as a discipline has been affected by such practices; which measures have been proved more effective to combat such practices in other disciplines; whether our discipline has any specificity in this respect; which factors are facilitating the unethical use of LLMs in political science and to what extent the LLMs bring something substantially different from other unethical behaviours in the publishing chain (i.e. research, authorship, reviewing, editorial activities). The panel also asks which are the potential benefits that the LLMs could bring to scientific publishing in political science, and which are the factors that can facilitate the shift towards a positive use of such tools to develop and consolidate the infrastructure of quality publishing in our field.