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AnchoredAI: Contextual Anchoring of AI Comments Improves Writer Agency and Ownership
Martin Lou, Jackie Crowley, Samuel Dodson, Dongwook Yoon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16128 ht…

AnchoredAI: Contextual Anchoring of AI Comments Improves Writer Agency and Ownership
Generative AI is increasingly integrated into writing support, yet current chat-based interfaces often obscure referential context and risk amplifying automation bias and overreliance. We introduce AnchoredAI, a novel system that anchors AI feedback directly to relevant text spans. AnchoredAI implements two key mechanisms: (1) an Anchoring Context Window (ACW) that maintains unique, context-rich references, and (2) an update-aware context retrieval method that preserves the intent of prior comm…