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AI for Pre-Registration Drafting and Compliance
Pre-registration prevents researcher degrees of freedom. AI drafts pre-registration documents from study protocols — ensuring nothing's left out.
Adults & Professionals · Research & Analysis · ~5 min read
The premise
Pre-registration thoroughness catches the analytic decisions researchers should make in advance; AI helps draft comprehensively.
What AI does well here
- Generate pre-registration drafts following AsPredicted, OSF, or registry-specific templates
- Surface pre-specified decisions researchers might forget (alpha levels, exclusion criteria, multiple comparisons)
- Compare draft pre-registration against existing exemplars in the field
- Generate the deviations log for inevitable post-hoc decisions
What AI cannot do
- Substitute for substantive methodological thinking
- Eliminate the discipline of actually following pre-registration
- Replace peer review of pre-registration
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Practice this safely
Use a real but low-risk workflow from your day. Treat AI as a drafting and organizing layer, then verify the output before anyone relies on it.
- 1Ask AI to explain pre-registration in plain language, then underline anything that sounds uncertain or too broad.
- 2Give it one detail from "AI for Pre-Registration Drafting and Compliance" and ask for two possible next steps plus one reason each step might be wrong.
- 3Check OSF against a trusted source, teacher, adult, expert, or original document before you use it.
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