[ { "Resource Title": "OpenInfra Foundation Policy for AI Generated Content", "URL": "https://openinfra.org/legal/ai-policy", "Organisation / Authors": "OpenInfra Foundation", "Year": "2025", "Type": "Policy", "Relevance": "Explains the steps engineers should take to ensure safe and transparent use of AI in open source software.", "Tags": "", "Related Risks": "", "Notes": "Originally published in 2023 and updated in 2024 and 2025.", "Issue": "", "Maintainer Notes": "", "related_risk_refs": [], "related_risk_urls": [], "issue_url": null }, { "Resource Title": "Journal of Open Source Software Policies", "URL": "https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/policies.html", "Organisation / Authors": "Journal of Open Source Software", "Year": "2026", "Type": "Policy", "Relevance": "Includes a section on \"AI usage policy\" which details the expectations of authors and reviewers around AI usage.", "Tags": "", "Related Risks": "", "Notes": "", "Issue": "", "Maintainer Notes": "", "related_risk_refs": [], "related_risk_urls": [], "issue_url": null }, { "Resource Title": "ADSA position paper on generative AI", "URL": "https://github.com/Academic-Data-Science-Alliance/rse-ai-position-statement", "Organisation / Authors": "Alliance for Data Science and AI", "Year": "2026", "Type": "Position paper", "Relevance": "Community developed position paper on AI use in the research software workspace. This has been developed through a number of workshops designed to engage the RSE community.", "Tags": "", "Related Risks": "", "Notes": "You can add your signature to the paper to show your support for the key messages!", "Issue": "", "Maintainer Notes": "", "related_risk_refs": [], "related_risk_urls": [], "issue_url": null }, { "Resource Title": "Assistance for reading, not writing", "URL": "https://x28newblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/25/assistance-for-reading-not-writing/", "Organisation / Authors": "Matthias Melcher (retired from Heidelberg University)", "Year": "2026", "Type": "Position paper", "Relevance": "Argues (amongst others) that GenAI-assisted coding is less sustainable.", "Tags": "", "Related Risks": "", "Notes": "", "Issue": "", "Maintainer Notes": "", "related_risk_refs": [], "related_risk_urls": [], "issue_url": null }, { "Resource Title": "Embracing AI with integrity", "URL": "https://ukrio.org/wp-content/uploads/Embracing-AI-with-integrity.pdf", "Organisation / Authors": "UK Research Integrity Office", "Year": "2025", "Type": "Guidance", "Relevance": "Covers general use of AI in research, with some applications to research software engineering.", "Tags": "", "Related Risks": "", "Notes": "", "Issue": "", "Maintainer Notes": "", "related_risk_refs": [], "related_risk_urls": [], "issue_url": null }, { "Resource Title": "Artificial Intelligence Playbook for UK Government", "URL": "https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67aca2f7e400ae62338324bd/AI_Playbook_for_the_UK_Government__12_02_.pdf", "Organisation / Authors": "Department for Science, Innovation & Technology; Government Digital Services", "Year": "2025", "Type": "Guidance", "Relevance": "Covers general use of AI in the public sector. Includes detailed scenarios relevant to the risk register, including AI-generated software examples.", "Tags": "", "Related Risks": "", "Notes": "", "Issue": "", "Maintainer Notes": "", "related_risk_refs": [], "related_risk_urls": [], "issue_url": null }, { "Resource Title": "The state of AI for research software engineering", "URL": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRruD_LZFJM", "Organisation / Authors": "Steve van Tuyl, Consortium for the Advancement of Scientific Software", "Year": "2026", "Type": "Report", "Relevance": "A YouTube video detailing the results of a survey on GenAI use in the RSE community.", "Tags": "", "Related Risks": "", "Notes": "Slides are available at https://zenodo.org/records/18166308.", "Issue": "", "Maintainer Notes": "", "related_risk_refs": [], "related_risk_urls": [], "issue_url": null }, { "Resource Title": "Is AI After My Job? Navigating the Future of Research Software Engineering", "URL": "https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/ai-after-my-job-navigating-future-research-software-engineering", "Organisation / Authors": "Nadine Spychala; Colin Sauze; Bryn Noel Ubald; Scott Archer-Nicholls; Software Sustainability Institute", "Year": "2026", "Type": "Report", "Relevance": "A blog post developed at Collaborations Workshop 2025 weighing the risks and opportunities of Generative AI in the RSE workspace.", "Tags": "", "Related Risks": "", "Notes": "", "Issue": "", "Maintainer Notes": "", "related_risk_refs": [], "related_risk_urls": [], "issue_url": null }, { "Resource Title": "Preparing JOSS for a generative AI future: From code to human creativity and design", "URL": "https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2026/01/preparing-joss-for-a-generative-ai-future", "Organisation / Authors": "Arfon M. Smith; Journal of Open Source Software", "Year": "2026", "Type": "Report", "Relevance": "Discusses the ways in which JOSS, and the open-source software community more broadly, are adapting to generative AI.", "Tags": "", "Related Risks": "", "Notes": "", "Issue": "", "Maintainer Notes": "", "related_risk_refs": [], "related_risk_urls": [], "issue_url": null }, { "Resource Title": "Assertion Errors: Why AI-Generated Research Code Still Needs Epistemic Infrastructure", "URL": "https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7185258", "Organisation / Authors": "Joseph Shingleton, James Hetherington, Ana Basiri", "Year": "2026", "Type": "Position paper", "Relevance": "The paper looks at the impact of AI in research software from an epistemological perspective. It provides a useful perspective for understanding the necessity for researchers to have a deep understanding of the code they develop, in a way that might be different to generic software engineers.", "Tags": "Research Integrity, Wider Societal Impacts, People and Professional Practice, Epistemic", "Related Risks": "", "Notes": "This is a pre-print of an article currently under review.", "Issue": "#200", "Maintainer Notes": "", "related_risk_refs": [], "related_risk_urls": [], "issue_url": "https://github.com/jshng-glasgow/Responsible-AI-Risk-Register/issues/200" }, { "Resource Title": "Microsoft Responsible AI Transparency Report 2026", "URL": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/topics/responsible-ai/reports/transparency-report/", "Organisation / Authors": "Microsoft", "Year": "2026", "Type": "Report", "Relevance": "A report on the responsible use of AI from Microsoft. Microsoft describes moving agent governance toward system-level controls covering agent identity, tool permissions, approval points, action monitoring and phased deployment, including its use of GitHub Copilot.", "Tags": "Software Sustainability, Governance, Agents", "Related Risks": "", "Notes": "", "Issue": "#206", "Maintainer Notes": "", "related_risk_refs": [], "related_risk_urls": [], "issue_url": "https://github.com/jshng-glasgow/Responsible-AI-Risk-Register/issues/206" }, { "Resource Title": "Debian General Resolution: Responsible use of AI", "URL": "https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002.en.html", "Organisation / Authors": "Debian", "Year": "2026", "Type": "Report", "Relevance": "A report on a poll of the Debian community on the use of AI in development. Debian chose neither prohibition nor special evidential rules: AI-assisted contributions must satisfy its existing standards for correctness, maintainability and legal compliance, with contributors expected to understand, review and test them. Disclosure is encouraged but optional, while bulk agentic actions require prior discussion and human oversight", "Tags": "Software Sustainability, Governance, Debian, Open Source", "Related Risks": "", "Notes": "", "Issue": "#204", "Maintainer Notes": "", "related_risk_refs": [], "related_risk_urls": [], "issue_url": "https://github.com/jshng-glasgow/Responsible-AI-Risk-Register/issues/204" } ]