Speaker:	Rubén Comas Forgas (Balearic Islands University)
Title:	Beyond the Promise of AI: Ethics, Transparency and Academic Integrity in Scholarly Communication
Date (JST):	Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Place:	Seminar Room A
Abstract:	This seminar explores how generative artificial intelligence is transforming academic dissemination and scholarly publishing, from writing support and translation to peer review, editorial screening, and the circulation of research outputs. Adopting an ethical and critical perspective, it examines both the opportunities AI may offer and the risks it introduces for authorship, transparency, epistemic diversity, and research integrity. The session will address current editorial policies on AI, the growing problem of undeclared uses of generative tools in academic work, and the tensions between efficiency, accountability, and human judgment. It will also consider broader issues often overlooked in these debates, including linguistic homogenization, hidden labor, and new forms of inequality embedded in AI systems. Overall, the seminar argues that the central question is not whether AI should be used in scholarly communication, but how its use can remain transparent, responsible, and aligned with core academic values in contemporary research and publication cultures. This seminar is part of the research visit of Prof. Rubén Comas-Forgas to the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (research project reference PID2022-141031NB-I00).

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