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AI Involvement Disclosure

Required at submission. Sealed as part of the permanent record.

The requirement

All submissions must include an AI involvement disclosure. This is not optional and cannot be changed after submission. The disclosure is sealed alongside the submission timestamp and is part of the permanent paper record.

Disclosure levels

None No AI tools were used at any stage of the work.

Editing only AI used for grammar, spelling, or clarity editing only. No substantive contribution to content.

Analysis assistance AI assisted with data analysis, literature review, or synthesis. The human author directed and verified all conclusions.

Co-drafting AI contributed to the written content of the paper. The human author reviewed, edited, and is responsible for the final text.

Collaborative AI acted as a named intellectual contributor. The nature of the contribution must be described in the disclosure notes.

Why eaiou does not penalize AI use

AI involvement is an empirical fact of how research is increasingly conducted. Requiring disclosure but penalizing it incentivizes concealment, which is worse than the thing being concealed. eaiou treats AI disclosure as a methodological statement — the same way a paper discloses its statistical software, its data sources, or its funding. The goal is accurate record, not editorial judgment.