AI in the Academic Context: Intellectual Property, Peer-reviewing and Editors' challenges

AI in the Academic Context: Intellectual Property, Peer-reviewing and Editors' challenges

Marco Giraldo Barreto, Editor in Chief, Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano

AIs are evolving at the speed of light, but little has been said about what the role of these new tools represent to academic research and what this irruption has meant to intellectual property, peer reviewing and, how we trust knowledge-building. By demonstrating examples of how ChatGPT works for specific cases on research, attendees will learn about challenges related to AI for academic research, and what steps editors should take to protect intellectual property, enhance peer-reviewing, and make the best out of these tools instead of fighting against them.

Marco Giraldo Barreto (he/his/him) is Editor in Chief, Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano. He has a BA in Modern Languages (Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia), Specialist in Intellectual Property Law (Universidad Sergio Arboleda, Bogotá, Colombia), and MA in Cultural Management and Production (Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogotá, Colombia). He has worked with institutions such as Editorial Norma, Universidad de Caldas, Universidad Santo Tomás and Cinemateca de Bogotá. He is also Executive Director of Asociación de Editoriales Universitarias de Colombia (ASEUC), the Association of Colombian University Presses.