Our founding manifesto asks one question of a book: Is it worth the voyage? But a press also has obligations — to its readers, to its authors, and to the broader culture of publishing. One of those obligations is to think carefully, and in public, about how authorship, credit, and responsibility should work in an age when generative tools are part of almost every writer's workshop.
We have drafted a white paper setting out our current thinking. It proposes a contribution-level disclosure framework to replace the inadequate binary of "human-written" versus "AI-generated," traces the chain of authorial agency through twelve distinct stages of composition, and articulates what we call the Theseus Standard for human-governed authorship.
We are not finished thinking. We are soliciting comment.
If you would like to read the paper and offer a response — whether you agree, dissent, or want to push the argument somewhere we haven't taken it — we'd be glad to hear from you. Request access below, and we'll share the document directly.