Vet Books for AI Before Prizes

Literary prizes and major publishers should adopt mandatory AI‑authorship vetting (using agreed detectors, provenance checks, and disclosure requirements) as a precondition for longlists and awards. This would institutionalize transparency, reduce fraud, and protect the signalling value of literary recognition while acknowledging detector fallibility and the need for an appeals process. — If adopted, this would force concrete governance of AI in culture, shaping publishing markets, translation deals, prize legitimacy, and debates over artistic authorship.