The Society of Authors (SoA) has launched a “Human Authored” scheme to “help identify works written by humans in a market increasingly flooded by AI-generated books”.

Under the initiative, authors will be able to register their titles and download a Human Authored logo to display on the back cover of their books. Novelist Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring (HarperCollins), revealed the new scheme and logo at the London Book Fair on March 10th.

In 2025, the US Authors Guild launched a similar scheme to signify books that “emanated from the human intellect” and not from AI, while UK start-up Books by People started an “Organic Literature Certification” with a group of independent publishing houses.

Professor Mary Beard is among several authors backing the SoA’s scheme, the trade association reports, and plans to register her works on the Human Authored website. She said: “I’m supporting the Human Authored scheme. It’s only going to be Human Authored books on my desert island.”

Bestselling author Malorie Blackman added: “Human Authored seeks to highlight the imagination, commitment, craft and care taken to produce stories and books that can be enjoyed by everyone. Any creative endeavor requires time, effort, a willingness to learn from mistakes and failure and a determination to persevere – lifelong, essential skills that cannot be learned and honed by allowing AI to do all of our creative thinking and production for us.”

via The Bookseller