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Preprinting in AI Ethics: Toward a Set of Community Guidelines
The fast-moving, dynamic world of artificial intelligence (AI) stands in stark contrast to the slow-moving, conservative world of academia.11 This is particularly clear in the world of AI ethics, where in addition to the industry-academia contrast we also have the meeting of very different academic disciplines, including computer science, philosophy, ethics, and social sciences. The traditions, norms, and values of these disciplines are often at odds with one another, making interdisciplinarity challenging. Take, for example, preprinting, the practice of quickly disseminating research before potentially--but not necessarily--seeking publication in traditional academic journals.a Interdisciplinary conflicts appear when, for example, researchers from a computer science background, where rapid publication of preprints on servers such as arXiv is the norm,2 meet researchers from the social sciences and humanities, where this is less common.1,30