pub-ethics

COPE

Name: Calibrated Authority rating — COPE
Item: COPE — public generative-AI policy
Rating: 7
Author: Chris Huber Reitz

7/12Calibrated Authority

“AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work. As non-legal entities, they cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest nor manage copyright and license agreements.”— Position: Authorship and AI tools · source ↗

Traceability & inspectability

Human authorship & accountability

Disclosure & labeling

Synthetic-identity / fabrication prohibition

Human validation in loop

Evidential-trust emphasis

Posture Balanced Boundary fit · fits Trust-logic Relational

Source policy: https://publicationethics.org/guidance/cope-position/authorship-and-ai-tools

Machine record: /institutions/cope.json

Cite this

Reitz, C.H. (2026). The Calibrated Authority Index — COPE. https://calibrated-authority.chrishuberreitz.com/institutions/cope Quote: “AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work. As non-legal entities, they cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest nor manage copyright and license agreements.” Source: https://publicationethics.org/guidance/cope-position/authorship-and-ai-tools

Index Methodology Manifest JSON atom CC-BY-4.0 · v2026-06-22 · Chris Huber Reitz