Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the landscape of academic research at an astonishing speed. From idea generation to data production, from writing to journal publishing, AI is infiltrating every link of the academic ecosystem (Van Quaquebeke et al., 2025). In this article published in The Leadership Quarterly, Van Quaquebeke, Tonidandel, and Banks point out that we are already in an era where AI deeply participates in the production of knowledge. The real question