Editorial Policy

Effective Date: February 7, 2026
Last Updated: February 7, 2026

Purpose and Scope

This Editorial Policy explains how Society & AI evaluates, edits, and maintains published content. It is designed to make our publication standards transparent to readers, authors, researchers, and institutional partners. The policy applies across research articles, commentary, perspectives, and related public-interest scholarship published on this website.

Source Standards

Society & AI prioritizes sources that serve scholarly, educational, and civic purposes. We generally rely on peer-reviewed literature, credible preprints (with appropriate caveats), official institutional reports, and research communications from universities, nonprofit research organizations, public agencies, and mission-aligned civil society institutions.

We may also evaluate submissions connected to industry or private organizations when the material demonstrates clear public-interest value, methodological transparency, and verifiable evidence. Source selection is determined by intellectual merit and relevance, not by institutional prestige alone.

Content Selection Principles

We do not publish all submissions we receive. Editorial decisions are made by assessing methodological credibility, relevance to the intersection of AI, education, and society, and likely value to readers seeking rigorous analysis.

In practice, we prioritize work that contributes new evidence, clarifies an emerging debate, synthesizes research responsibly, or offers grounded conceptual frameworks. We typically deprioritize purely administrative announcements, promotional material, and items that do not provide substantive scholarly or analytical contribution.

Editorial Handling and Style

Society & AI preserves authorial intent while applying editorial review for clarity, precision, accessibility, and consistency with our publication standards. Edits may include correction of grammar or syntax, refinement of structure, clarification of ambiguous claims, and alignment of framing with non-sensational scholarly communication.

Headlines, summaries, and metadata may be revised when needed to improve accuracy, readability, and search discoverability. Such revisions are made to strengthen clarity without changing the substantive meaning of the underlying work.

All final publication decisions remain under human editorial oversight. AI-assisted tools may support drafting or editorial workflows, but they do not replace editorial judgment or scholarly accountability. For additional detail, see our AI Acknowledgement.

Clarifications, Corrections, and Retractions

We welcome good-faith requests to clarify or correct published material. Requests may be submitted by authors, institutions, researchers cited in the work, or readers who identify a potential error. When feasible, we validate proposed corrections against primary sources and coordinate with relevant contributors before making substantial revisions.

Minor issues (for example, typographic errors or non-substantive factual slips) may be corrected directly. Substantive corrections are documented transparently in the updated publication context whenever appropriate.

In rare cases, we may retract a piece when there is compelling evidence of major factual unreliability, serious methodological failure, research integrity concerns, or formal retraction of central underlying evidence. Retraction decisions are made with a bias toward transparency and scholarly responsibility.

Editorial Independence

Society & AI maintains editorial independence in topic selection, argumentation, and publication decisions. We do not permit funders, partners, or external stakeholders to dictate conclusions. Conflicts of interest, where relevant, should be disclosed and managed in accordance with our Research Ethics Statement and Scientific Quality Standards.

Contact

Questions regarding this policy, or requests for clarification or correction, may be directed to:

Society & AI Research Group
Principal Scientist: Sai Gattupalli, Ph.D.
Email: sai@societyandai.org
Website: https://societyandai.org

This Editorial Policy is a living document and may be revised as our editorial practices evolve.