Abstract: Whether artificial intelligence （AI） tools can pass the qualification examination for publishing professionals （examination in brief） is an important sign to test whether AI tools can replace humans,but the performance of AI tools in China’s qualification examination for publishing professionals has not been reported. This study used real questions from the examination （both intermediate and elementary levels） as experimental materials to test the performance of five well-known domestic AI tools,namely ChatGLM,Qwen,iFlytek Spark,ERNIE Bot and 360 Zhinao,in the examination. The results show that four of the AI tools （ChatGLM,Qwen,iFlytek Spark,and ERNIE Bot） passed the elementary-level examination,while none of the five AI tools passed the intermediate-level examination,indicating that AI tools can replace humans as assistant editors （assistant technical editor or second-level proofreader） to a certain extent,but can not serve as editors （technical editor or first-level proofreader）. By comprehensively comparing the scores of different AI tools in different question types and different test contents,suggestions on the application of AI tools are put forward to provide references for improving the quality and efficiency of editing and publishing works.

Key words: artificial intelligence, qualification examination for publishing professionals, ChatGLM, QWen, iFlytek Spark, ERNIE Bot, 360 Zhinao