Raga Driyan Pratama, Utami Widiati, Yazid Basthomi, Niamika El Khoiri, Siti Muniroh, Fikriani Aminun Omolu
This study aims to describe doctoral students’ experiences with human-AI collaborative writing (HAICW) and to examine their perceptions of ethics and authenticity in both AI-supported scientific writing practices and their professional domains. Using a narrative inquiry design, this study involved four doctoral students majoring in English Language Education, who met several inclusion criteria. We conducted interviews to collect the data, which were then analyzed using a deductive thematic analysis. We applied member checking to make the analysis results more rigorous and reliable. This study found that all participants agreed that HAICW has reshaped academic authorship into a collaborative space where human cognition and artificial intelligence interact through ethically grounded practices. They also emphasized that ethics and authenticity of scientific writing in the AI era should be repositioned, moving from textual originality to cognitive transparency, moral practices, and intellectual ownership, echoing a moral compass and a professional identity marker that sustains credibility, public trust, and scholarly integrity in an AI-mediated academic world. These findings are expected to be a reference for higher education to foster ethical, transparent, and authentic AI-integrated authorship beyond the rigid technicalities. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2026.
Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Negeri Malang, East Java Province, Malang, Indonesia
