At The Yale Review, we are committed to publishing work shaped by human judgment, care, and responsibility. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies—including large language models (LLMs)—are increasingly part of the cultural landscape, both as a subject of inquiry and as a tool in creative and critical work.
As an institution, we may occasionally use AI technologies to support internal tasks such as calendaring, research collation, and editorial planning in ways that we deem in keeping with our overall mission. However, all published writing is selected, edited, and fact-checked by human editors.
We welcome submissions that engage thoughtfully or critically with AI—especially when AI is central to the inquiry or deployed self-reflexively as part of a writer’s process. All work we publish must reflect the discernment and intent of a human author. Where AI-generated material appears prominently in a submission, we expect writers to note this in brief and explain how it was used.
Any AI-generated content is subject to human oversight and revision. As always, factual inaccuracies—including those produced by AI technologies—will be corrected or annotated as needed. The Yale Review does not use AI technologies in ways that infringe upon intellectual property.
AI Guidelines for Writers Submitting to The Yale Review
The Yale Review publishes writing grounded in human insight, voice, and responsibility. While we recognize that some writers may use generative AI technologies in the course of their work, our priority remains publishing pieces of human authorship and expression.
Writers submitting to TYR
should keep the following in mind:
- Primary authorship must be human. We do not accept submissions that rely on AI to generate entire drafts, arguments, or analyses.
- Process-level use is acceptable. AI technologies may be used to support your process—for example, to generate prompts or organize research—especially in projects that reflect on or engage with AI itself.
- Transparency matters. If a piece incorporates AI-generated language or structure in a meaningful or visible way, please briefly indicate, at the time of submission, how AI was used in the composition of the piece.
- Writers are responsible for accuracy. All factual claims in a piece must be verified. As always, TYR conducts its own round of fact-checking prior to publication.
- Editorial review is always human. Every piece published in The Yale Review is reviewed and shaped by human editors, and we remain committed to work that reflects lived experience and individual sensibilities.