What does responsible AI use look like for academic research? Out of thirty-eight top-tier doctoral universities surveyed, only six have AI policies that extend past research integrity into AI literacy and valid research practices. Major academic publishers, by contrast, issued a substantively identical no-AI-co-author policy across the sector within ten weeks of ChatGPT-3.5’s release. While publishers and funders have responded to the emergence of AI, the universities that train researchers are lagging far behind what is needed to prepare them to use it responsibly. This report describes the significant opportunities and problems that agentic generative AI creates for research, setting out a competency framework for research training in the 21st century.
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