CoARA Spotlight: Ethical Implications of AI Integration in Research Assessment

June 24, 2026

On 12 June 2026, Matt Coler (University of Groningen), from the Working Group Ethics and Research Integrity Policy in Responsible Research Assessment for Data and Artificial Intelligence (WG ERIP) examined the ethics of AI in research assessment from a 2026 vantage point.

Building on the ERIP essay, co-authored with Susanne van den Hooff and the October 2025 ERIP whitepaper on AI-driven science futures, the presentation covered key updates in 2026: the new empirical evidence on LLM-assisted peer review from AAAI and NeurIPS, what the EU AI Act’s 2 August 2026 high-risk deadline means for institutions, and the infrastructure CoARA-ERIP is shipping in response.

Click here to access the presentation slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-QzbBmYQiEiMcDz3VH9EBzJkdvysyPUYqpMbXI38qVY/edit?pli=1&slide=id.p1#slide=id.p1

Learn more about WG ERIP's work here: https://www.coara.org/working-groups/wg-erip/

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