diff --git a/.github/workflows/authors.yml b/.github/workflows/authors.yml
index 12dc4b66aa0717..01bd0652a4b399 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/authors.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/authors.yml
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ jobs:
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_USER_TOKEN }}
         with:
-          title: "meta: update AUTHORS"
+          author: Node.js GitHub Bot <github-bot@iojs.org>
           body: "If this PR exists, there's presumably new additions to the AUTHORS file. This is an automatically generated PR by the `authors.yml` GitHub Action, which runs `tools/update-authors.js` and submits a new PR or updates an existing PR.\n\nPlease note that there might be duplicate entries. If there are, please remove them and add the duplicate emails to .mailmap directly to this PR."
           branch: "actions/authors-update" # custom branch *just* for this Action.
           commit-message: "meta: update AUTHORS"
-          author: github-actions[bot] <github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
           labels: meta
+          title: "meta: update AUTHORS"