The invisible editor: operationalizing ‘meaningful human oversight’ in artificial intelligence–mediated workflows
Syed Mohamad Shajahan S M, Founder and CEO, Lush Transnational · European Science Editing 52:e186943 · September 2026 · Open access, CC BY 4.0
When a publisher’s copyediting or peer-review triage runs on an undisclosed AI system, who is responsible for the result? This viewpoint names the risk, semantic drift: edits that keep the grammar and change the meaning. It proposes a five-level disclosure protocol that matches human oversight to what the AI did, from spellcheck to decision support.
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