How to Ethically Use Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Writing
New legislative requirements
In early 2025 In Kazakhstan, changes in legislation regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in writing scientific dissertations came into force. Now it can only be used for statistical data processing, and this requires the approval of scientific advisers and the university ethics committee. In addition, it is prohibited to use AI for automatic text writing, reducing plagiarism, as well as in research involving children under 13 or containing classified information.
These changes reflect a global trend towards tighter controls over the use of AI in the scientific field.
The Role of AI in Scientific Activity
Today, AI can perform many useful functions:
- Automation of literature review. AI tools analyze large amounts of data, find relevant sources, and even create short summaries of articles.
- Editing and translation. AI services help correct errors, improve text style, and translate materials into English.
- Text generation. Some language models can formulate ideas, suggest a logical structure for an article, and even simplify complex scientific concepts.
However, despite these possibilities, thoughtless use of AI can lead to academic dishonesty.
How are leading scientific journals responding to AI?
In response to the active use of AI, major publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Nature And Science, have updated their editorial policies. Authors are now required to:
- Clearly indicate which AI tools were used and at what stages of article preparation.
- Don't count AI as a co-author, since artificial intelligence cannot bear scientific responsibility.
- Guarantee the originality of the text, as articles written entirely by AI may be rejected.
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How to use AI correctly to avoid problems?
Rely entirely on AI to write your article not recommended, as this may lead to problems when checking originality (Turnitin, iThenticate) and a decrease in the scientific value of the work.
What can be done:
- Additional writing and editing – using AI to generate ideas, check style, grammar, structure text and improve its clarity.
- Big Data Analysis – application of AI for literature analysis, statistics processing, graphing and data visualization.
- Search for relevant literature – using AI to quickly search for sources, analyze citations and select scientific articles.
- Automation of routine processes – assistance in formatting bibliographies, creating annotations, summaries and structuring articles.
- Modeling and forecasting – application of AI for mathematical and economic modeling, forecasting trends in research.
- Adequate percentage of AI usage in the text — an adequate percentage of AI usage in the text varies from 10-20%. Anything more will result in the article being rejected
What not to do:
- Pass off AI-generated text as your own original contribution – fully automatically generated texts cannot be considered original works without critical analysis and adaptation.
- Fabrication or manipulation of data – creating false experimental results or manipulating statistics using AI is academic fraud.
- Automatic translation without verification – using AI to translate scientific texts without additional verification can lead to loss of accuracy and misinterpretation of terms.
- Violation of privacy and copyright – introducing confidential or copyrighted materials into AI tools without permission.
The Future of AI in Academic Writing
Given the rapid development of technology, specialized AI assistants for scientific research will appear in the coming years. They will be able to:
- Recommend relevant sources based on new publications.
- Generate hypotheses based on big data.
- Support scholars in translation and editing.
However, one thing will remain the same: Artificial intelligence should help, not replace human laborIf artificial intelligence was used in some places to write the text, it must be independently reformulated and rewritten so that the systems do not detect traces of the use of AI.
Conclusion
AI is a useful tool, but it will not replace deep scientific analysis and a professional approach. In the context of new legislative requirements, it is important not only to create a text, but to prepare a high-quality academic article that meets all ethical standards and scientific publishing standards.
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