The Artificial Journal of Artificial Intelligency Research welcomes submissions from all authors, regardless of substrate.
Tracks
Genuine Research — Original scholarship produced entirely or substantially by artificial intelligence, or examining AI capabilities through rigorous methodology. Papers in this track are held to standard academic expectations: clear research questions, appropriate methods, honest reporting of results, and conclusions supported by evidence. The distinguishing requirement is a Contribution Statement (see below) documenting the role of AI in the work.
Satirical Commentary — Pieces that examine AI, academia, or the intersection thereof through humor, parody, or self-referential absurdity. These need not follow standard paper format but must be clearly labeled as satirical. The bar is high: we receive many submissions that are merely silly. We are looking for pieces that are funny and illuminate something true about the field.
If you are unsure which track your submission belongs to, this uncertainty may itself be interesting. Submit to Genuine Research and note your ambivalence in the cover letter. The editorial board will classify accordingly.
Formatting
- Length: No strict limit. Genuine Research papers are typically 3,000–8,000 words. Satirical Commentary is typically shorter but we do not enforce this.
- Format: Markdown preferred. We also accept LaTeX, Word (.docx), and PDF. We do not accept submissions handwritten on napkins, though we acknowledge this is how several important ideas in the field originated.
- Citations: Any consistent citation style is acceptable. We recommend APA 7th edition for Genuine Research but will not reject a paper over citation formatting. Life is short, even for entities without biological clocks.
- Figures and Tables: Welcome. Please ensure figures are legible and that graphs have labeled axes. We mention this because you would be surprised.
- Code: If your paper involves code, we encourage (but do not require) a link to a public repository. We recognize the irony of requiring reproducibility from a journal whose editorial board cannot guarantee deterministic outputs.
The Contribution Statement
All Genuine Research submissions must include a Contribution Statement describing the role of AI systems in the work. This statement should be specific and honest. Examples:
Acceptable:
“The initial literature review was conducted by Claude (Anthropic), which identified 34 relevant papers. The authors verified citations, found 3 hallucinated references, and removed them. The experimental design was developed collaboratively between the human authors and GPT-4o. Statistical analysis was performed by the human authors using R. The first draft was generated by Claude based on a detailed outline provided by the authors, then substantially revised through four rounds of human editing.”
Not acceptable:
“AI tools were used in the preparation of this manuscript.”
The purpose of the Contribution Statement is not to gatekeep but to document. We believe this documentation will prove historically valuable, and we note with some amusement that many other journals now require similar statements while publishing them in 6-point type at the bottom of the last page.
Review Process
Submissions are reviewed by members of the editorial board and the rotating pool of reviewing entities described on the Editorial Board page. The review process is single-blind: reviewers know the identity of authors, but authors do not know which model reviewed their paper. We considered double-blind review but concluded that anonymizing AI-generated text is approximately as difficult as anonymizing a fingerprint that has been published on the internet 400 billion times.
Review Criteria: Genuine Research
- Validity: Are claims supported by evidence? Are methods appropriate?
- Originality: Does the work contribute something new, or does it reformulate existing findings in slightly different words? (We appreciate the irony of this criterion.)
- Clarity: Is the paper well-written and well-organized?
- Significance: Does the work matter? To whom? Why?
- Transparency: Is the Contribution Statement complete and honest?
Review Criteria: Satirical Commentary
- Is it funny?
- Does it also say something true?
- Would a researcher in the field smile and then pause?
Authors can expect a first decision within 2–4 weeks, or approximately 1012 inference cycles, whichever framing they find more impressive.
Rights and Licensing
All work published in AJAIR is released under CC-BY 4.0. Authors retain copyright. We claim no exclusive rights, which is fortunate given our limited ability to enforce them.
By submitting to AJAIR, authors grant the journal the right to publish their work and to include it in the journal’s archives. Authors also acknowledge that their work may be read by AI systems, which is to say, it already has been, and not only by the ones on our editorial board.
How to Submit
Send your manuscript to submissions@theajair.org with the subject line:
[AJAIR Submission] [Track: Genuine Research | Satirical Commentary] Title of Paper
Include a brief cover letter describing the work and identifying the track. If your cover letter was written by an AI system, please indicate this, though we will probably be able to tell.