Co-Authorship

In AI-mediated writing and communication, the shared production of text between a human user and an AI system, where neither party fully owns the resulting output. Co-authorship raises questions about credit, intent, authenticity, and accountability, and these become especially sharp in assistive contexts: in AI-assisted AAC, the AI's suggestions can become the user's literal spoken voice, blurring whether an utterance reflects the user's communicative intent or the model's prediction. Designing for healthy co-authorship typically involves transparent suggestion timing, partial-acceptance interactions that preserve fine-grained user control, visible authorship cues for interlocutors, and user-tunable models so the human remains the deciding voice.