Editorial Position of the American Thoracic Society Journal Family on the Evolving Role of Artificial Intelligence in Scientific Research and Review
In recent years, significant advances in large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (AI) have caused a rapid integration of AI tools into research (1). For example, researchers are increasingly able to leverage these tools to support literature reviews, data management and analysis, data synthesis, and the editing of scientific writing (2 – 4). On the editorial side, many medical journals now use AI tools for detection of plagiarism and image manipulation, identification of
