The AI-use statement and the process record
The paper's disclosure of AI use is generated from the job log and counts only work a model actually did. The process record lists everything the paper reports.
The AI-use statement
IEEE, ACM and APA all require authors to disclose the use of generative AI. The paper's AI-use statement is generated from the review's job log:
- which models did which tasks (screening, discussion, the extraction form, extraction, survey ratings, query writing, drafting, reviewing, the page check);
- how people oversaw them: what was verified, and what was not.
It is truthful by construction: only work a model actually did counts. Open-access lookups and the PDF build are not AI and are not listed. When a run of the autopilot decided something by rule and no person has checked it yet, the statement says so plainly. When AI screening used a records-per-prompt mode other than Default, it says how many records the AI judged per prompt.
AI co-authors are never authors: their contributions are described here instead (COPE, ICMJE and IEEE policies).
The process record
The process record on the Manuscript tab lists everything the paper reports, compiled from what the app recorded:
- the searches (sources, dates, queries, limits, counts);
- deduplication;
- screening votes and agreement;
- discussions;
- AI jobs, with their models;
- retrieval;
- extraction and quote checks.
The AI writes the methods from these facts, not from memory, so the text, the numbers and the flow diagram always agree.
Read the AI-use statement before you submit. Do your checking of AI work in the app (verify extracted values against their quotes, edit survey ratings, screen or resolve records yourself), where it is recorded, so the statement can say what people verified.