AAAI presidential panel – AI and scientific integrity

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The Future of AI Research report, published in March 2025, aims to clearly identify the trajectory of AI research in a structured way. The report was led by outgoing AAAI President Francesca Rossi and covers 17 different AI topics. Members of the report team, and other selected AI practitioners, are taking part in a series of video panel discussions covering selected chapters from the report.

In the next discussion in the collection, the four panellists tackle AI and scientific integrity. Specifically, they cover the following topics:

• Pressing challenges including LLM-rewritten duplicate submissions, proliferation of poor-quality AI-generated research, and community responses
• New detection tools, including innovations developed for AAAI 2026, designed to identify potential twin submissions and other AI-driven integrity issues

Panel Members

• Joydeep Biswas, The University of Texas at Austin
• Thomas Dietterich, Oregon State University
• Fei Fang, Carnegie Mellon University
• Michael Kirkpatrick, James Madison University

Moderator

• Francesca Rossi, AAAI past president, IBM Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader

Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.

Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.