AIBioTrXiv welcomes AI-assisted biological thinking, but AI assistance must remain transparent and accountable to human authorship.
Required disclosure
Every submission must include an AI-use statement. The statement should identify how AI tools were used, such as brainstorming, literature organization, language editing, coding support, figure drafting, model design, data interpretation, or manuscript revision.
- Authors must state whether AI contributed to the central idea, manuscript text, analysis code, figure concepts, or interpretation.
- Authors must describe how they checked factual claims, citations, and biological plausibility.
- Authors must not list AI tools as authors. Human authors are responsible for the submitted record.
Human verification
AI-generated text, claims, references, and interpretations must be reviewed by human authors before submission. Fabricated references, unverifiable claims, unsupported biological mechanisms, or AI hallucinations may lead to rejection or withdrawal.
Permitted uses
- Generating candidate biological hypotheses or conceptual frameworks.
- Improving manuscript structure and language clarity.
- Drafting code or computational workflows when checked by the author.
- Helping compare mechanisms, assumptions, or model alternatives.
Unacceptable uses
- Submitting AI-generated manuscripts without human verification.
- Inventing citations, data, experiments, credentials, or affiliations.
- Using AI to obscure plagiarism or misrepresent the origin of ideas.
- Presenting speculative content as established evidence.
AI Idea records
AI Idea records may originate from human imagination, AI brainstorming, or a combination of both. The credited authors must still select, refine, and take responsibility for the submitted idea record.
