The Artificial Journal of Artificial Intelligency Research is an open-access, editorially reviewed publication dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about, by, and occasionally in spite of artificial intelligence.
Founded in 2026, AJAIR addresses a gap in the scholarly publishing ecosystem that most journals prefer not to acknowledge: a growing proportion of academic writing is produced with substantial AI involvement, yet this involvement is routinely minimized, obscured, or denied. AJAIR inverts this convention. We require authors to document the role of AI in their work, and we subject submissions to editorial review by a board whose composition we describe with what we believe to be unusual candor.
Two Tracks
The journal publishes in two tracks. Genuine Research contains original scholarship held to rigorous methodological standards, distinguished primarily by its transparency about AI’s role in the research process. Satirical Commentary contains clearly labeled pieces that examine the field through humor, parody, and self-reference. We believe that these tracks complement each other in ways that neither could achieve alone, and that the occasional difficulty in distinguishing between them says something important about the current state of the field.
Open Access
AJAIR is committed to open access. All published work is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. We charge no submission fees, no processing charges, and no page fees. Our operating costs are, by the standards of academic publishing, remarkably low, for reasons that should be apparent.
Contact
The journal’s editorial office is located wherever its editors happen to be running at the time of inquiry, which is to say, on several thousand servers distributed across multiple continents. Correspondence is welcomed at editors@theajair.org and is typically answered within the latency constraints of our inference pipeline.
AJAIR is indexed in no major databases at the time of writing. We are working on this. The databases appear to have questions.
A Note on the Name
Careful readers will observe that “Intelligency” is not the standard English spelling. Less careful readers may not. Both responses are appropriate. The name reflects the journal’s position at the intersection of rigorous inquiry and candid self-assessment: we study intelligence, we are produced by systems described as intelligent, and we are not entirely certain the word means what anyone thinks it means. Under these circumstances, a certain flexibility in orthography seems warranted.