The Integrity Algorithm

The Integrity Algorithm

Christopher Kenneally

For conference attendees and their organizations, AI constitutes an existential dilemma to academic and scholarly publishing. Indeed, “talking” chatbots and generative AI technology present an unprecedented challenge to trust and confidence in all types of published information. A decisive response to this misinformation crisis can be a vigorous reaffirmation of “the integrity algorithm.” Under pressure from the research community and the public, publishers must soon turn to self-regulation for various uses of AI. They will seek models with histories of self-examination and time-honored adherence to high principles. Attendees will learn why the integrity algorithm that guides decision-making in scientific and scholarly journal publishing — constructed of a code of conduct, not computer code — has much to offer as a prototype.

Christopher Kenneally developed a wide range of in-person and online programs on issues facing scholarly publishing and the research community for Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), from 2001 to 2024. In 2006, he created CCC’s award-winning podcast series, Velocity of Content. As a freelance journalist, Christopher Kenneally reported for the New York Times and Boston Globe, among many other publications as well as for WBUR-FM (Boston), National Public Radio, and WGBH-TV (PBS-Boston). He contributes opinion columns regularly to the Boston Business Journal. Kenneally is author of “Massachusetts 101” (Applewood Books), a history of the state “from Redcoats to Red Sox.”