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AI Agent在科研全流程中的应用趋势与发展机会分析(2026-2029)

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1. AI Agent赋能科研的发展基础与现状概述

1.1 AI Agent的核心技术特性与科研场景适配逻辑

AI Agent,作为大型语言模型(LLM)的重要应用,具备自主感知、理解、规划、记忆、行动以及工具使用等核心能力,使其能够自动化地执行复杂任务,并有效赋能各类业务场景12。与传统的AI系统相比,基于LLM的AI Agent在处理自然语言、知识存储和推理能力方面展现出显著优势34。这些特性使其与科研工作的本质需求高度契合,从而在科研全流程中展现出巨大的应用潜力。

AI Agent的核心技术特性体现在以下几个方面:

  • 自主规划(Autonomous Planning):AI Agent能够根据给定的目标,自主地分解任务、制定执行计划,并在执行过程中根据环境反馈进行动态调整。在科研场景中,这意味着AI Agent可以辅助研究人员规划实验步骤、设计数据分析流程,甚至在面对未知结果时调整研究策略,显著提升科研效率和灵活性45。
  • 工具调用(Tool Use):AI Agent能够灵活调用外部工具和API,扩展自身的能力边界。例如,AI Agent可以集成专业的科研软件、数据库、计算平台等,从而执行文献检索、数据处理、模型模拟等各种专业操作135。这种能力使得AI Agent能够无缝融入现有的科研生态系统,实现更深层次的自动化。
  • 持续学习(Continuous Learning):AI Agent具备从与环境的交互中学习并不断改进自身性能的能力。通过记忆功能,AI Agent可以存储和积累知识,例如学习科研领域的新进展、修正实验方案中的不足,或优化数据分析模型,从而在长期使用中不断提升其智能化水平和解决问题的能力235。

AI Agent适配科研场景的内在逻辑主要体现在以下几个方面:

  • 高复杂度任务的处理:科研工作往往涉及高度复杂的问题,需要综合运用多学科知识和多种研究方法。AI Agent的自主规划和推理能力使其能够有效应对这种复杂性,协助研究人员处理复杂的假设空间、设计多变量实验,甚至进行虚拟细胞模拟等45。
  • 高重复性工作的自动化:科研过程中存在大量重复性高、耗时耗力的工作,例如海量文献的筛选与阅读、实验数据的预处理、结果报告的生成等。AI Agent的自动化执行能力能够显著解放研究人员,使其可以将更多精力投入到创新性思考和深度分析中5。
  • 高数据量信息的挖掘:现代科研产生了海量的多模态数据,包括文本、图像、基因测序数据等。AI Agent擅长处理和分析大规模数据集,能够从中发现人类难以察觉的模式、规律和潜在关联,从而加速新发现的产生45。例如,在炎症性肠病(IBD)的研究中,AI辅助方法通过构建基因网络,识别出与疾病结果最有效相关的连续状态路径,并成功预测了潜在的治疗靶点和候选药物的III期成功率6。
  • 提升决策精度与效率:AI Agent能够通过对历史数据和现有知识的深入学习,为科研决策提供数据驱动的依据。例如,在药物研发领域,AI Agent可以优化药物设计和开发流程,甚至提出临床病例的治疗策略,显著提高研发效率和成功率4。

1.2 全球科研领域AI Agent的落地应用进展

全球科研领域对AI Agent的探索与应用正处于快速发展阶段,涌现出众多旨在提升科研效率和创新能力的AI Agent产品与平台。这些产品在技术路线上呈现出多样性,主要可归结为基于大型语言模型(LLM)的通用型AI Agent、面向特定学科的垂直型AI Agent以及结合多模态能力的复合型AI Agent。

当前主流科研AI Agent产品的技术路线、应用领域与用户覆盖情况:

  • 基于LLM的通用型AI Agent: 许多产品利用ChatGPT等通用型LLM的强大语言理解和生成能力,提供文献摘要、草稿撰写、文本润色、编程辅助等功能 78。例如,一些平台允许研究人员输入研究问题,AI Agent便能自动生成初步的研究方案、相关文献综述或实验设计思路。这类Agent通常覆盖广泛的科研人员群体,尤其受到需要处理大量文本信息和提升写作效率的学者欢迎。然而,其在特定专业领域的深度和准确性仍需通过进一步的微调和领域知识集成来提升。
  • 垂直学科AI Agent: 针对生命科学、材料科学、化学工程等特定学科,出现了集成了领域知识库和专业工具的AI Agent。例如,在化学工程领域,AI已被用于催化剂设计、过程系统工程中的合成、设计、控制、调度、优化和风险管理等 9。在药物研发中,AI Agent可以加速新药的发现和优化流程。这类Agent通常由专业机构或科技公司开发,用户群体主要集中在相关领域的科研人员和工程师,旨在解决特定领域内复杂且高度专业化的问题。
  • 多模态AI Agent: 随着AI技术的发展,能够处理文本、图像、语音甚至实验数据等多模态信息的AI Agent也逐渐兴起。这类Agent在医学影像分析、地球科学数据解读、实验设备控制等方面展现出巨大潜力。它们能够整合来自不同来源的信息,进行更全面的分析和决策,例如将文字描述与图像信息相结合进行诊断或预测。虽然仍在早期发展阶段,但其在跨学科研究和复杂系统建模方面的优势不言而喻,用户群体将逐步拓展至需要整合多种数据类型的研究人员。

当前阶段的落地成效与普遍痛点:
落地成效:

  • 显著提升效率: AI Agent在文献筛选、数据预处理、实验设计初步构思等方面极大地缩短了研究周期,减轻了研究人员的重复性劳动负担 10。
  • 辅助决策与创新: 通过快速分析海量数据并识别潜在模式,AI Agent为科研人员提供了新的视角和假设,有助于发现新的研究方向和解决方案。
  • 个性化学习与支持: 在高等教育领域,AI Agent和学习管理系统(LMS)的整合,能够实现个性化学习路径、自适应评估和数据驱动的决策,提升教育质量和学生成功率 111213。

普遍痛点:

  • 数据质量与可解释性: AI Agent的性能高度依赖于训练数据的质量和规模。在科研领域,高质量、标注完善的专业数据相对稀缺。此外,AI模型决策过程的“黑箱”特性使得其可解释性不足,这在需要严谨验证和因果推断的科研中是一个重要障碍 14。
  • 幻觉与偏见: LLM在生成内容时可能产生“幻觉”,即生成看似合理但实际错误或虚构的信息,这包括虚构参考文献或伪造数据等,对科研诚信构成潜在风险 15。同时,训练数据中的固有偏见也可能被AI Agent学习并放大,导致结果的偏差或不公平性。
  • 与现有工作流程的整合: 将AI Agent无缝集成到研究人员已有的复杂科研工作流程中仍面临挑战。不同的实验室、研究团队可能有其独特的工具和方法,定制化和兼容性是关键。
  • 伦理与合规性问题: AI Agent在科研中的应用引发了知识产权归属、数据隐私、伦理审查以及原创性界定等一系列合规性问题,现有的监管框架尚不完善,难以有效应对这些新兴挑战 15。
  • 技术门槛与可访问性: 尽管许多AI Agent产品致力于简化用户界面,但有效利用和部署某些高级AI Agent仍需要一定的技术知识,这对于非计算机背景的科研人员可能构成障碍。

2. AI Agent在科研核心流程的典型应用与演进趋势

2.1 多源文献智能检索与知识体系梳理

文献检索和知识梳理是科研工作的基石,但传统方法耗时耗力,效率低下。AI Agent凭借其强大的自然语言处理和信息整合能力,正变革着这一流程,使其变得更加智能、高效和精准。

AI Agent在多源文献智能检索与知识体系梳理中的应用现状:

  • 跨数据库文献检索与筛选: AI Agent能够接入并整合来自不同学术数据库(如PubMed、Scopus、Web of Science等)的文献信息,执行高效的跨库检索。它不仅能理解复杂的查询语句,还能通过语义分析识别关键词背后的概念关联,从而过滤掉大量不相关文献,并将结果进行智能排序。例如,LITERAS系统通过检索代理(citation retrieval agents)来处理生物医学文献综述和引文检索,显著提高了检索的效率和准确性 16。还有一些专门的AI Agent系统被设计用于检索和整合特定领域的信息,如中药化合物信息,通过混合检索增强生成框架结合结构化数据库查询和语义向量检索,实现了高达96.67%的准确率 17。
  • 研究脉络自动梳理与趋势分析: AI Agent可以对检索到的海量文献进行深度阅读和分析,自动识别某一研究领域的关键概念、核心理论、主要研究方法和代表性学者,进而勾勒出清晰的研究发展脉络。它能通过识别文献间的引用关系、主题演变,揭示学科内部的结构和演进趋势。这对于新进入某一领域的研究人员,以及需要把握学科前沿方向的资深学者都极具价值。
  • 潜在研究空白识别: 通过分析现有文献中论证不足的领域、尚未解决的问题或未被充分探讨的联系,AI Agent能够辅助研究人员识别潜在的研究空白。它可以通过识别文献中缺乏相互引用的主题、未验证的假设或在不同学科交叉点上未被探索的领域来提供洞察。这种能力有助于研究人员发现创新点,避免重复性工作,从而提高研究的原创性。

AI Agent向个性化知识推荐、跨学科知识关联方向的演进趋势:

  • 个性化知识推荐: 未来的AI Agent将不仅仅是搜索引擎,而是能够根据研究人员的个人兴趣、研究历史、阅读偏好甚至学术风格,提供高度个性化的文献和知识推荐。通过持续学习用户的反馈,AI Agent可以不断优化推荐算法,确保推送的信息与用户需求高度契合,从而帮助研究人员更高效地发现感兴趣的研究内容,形成定制化的知识流。
  • 跨学科知识关联与融合: 随着科研复杂性的增加,跨学科研究成为创新突破的重要途径。AI Agent将能够打破学科壁垒,主动识别并建立不同学科领域间的潜在联系。例如,它可能在生物学文献中发现与材料科学相关的概念或方法,或将物理学中的理论模型应用于经济学现象的解释。这种跨学科的洞察力将有助于研究人员拓宽思路,促进创新性的交叉研究和新理论的诞生。AI Agent在未来将不仅局限于文献内容本身,更可能结合多模态数据,如实验数据、专利信息、会议报告等,构建一个更加全面、立体的知识图谱,从而实现更高维度的知识关联与推理。

2.2 定向化实验方案设计与可行性预评估

实验设计是科研成功的关键环节,但其复杂性和试错成本高昂。AI Agent通过整合领域知识、模拟预测和伦理考量,正逐步改变传统试错式的实验设计模式,使其向更加精准和高效的“定向化”发展。

AI Agent在定向化实验方案设计与可行性预评估中的应用模式:

  • 结合领域知识库生成定制化实验方案: AI Agent能够接入并整合特定学科的专业知识库,包括实验协议、生物学通路、化学反应规则、材料性能参数、疾病模型等。基于研究人员提出的研究目的或待解决问题,AI Agent可以智能地从这些知识库中提取相关信息,并结合机器学习算法,生成个性化、高效率的实验设计方案。例如,在药物发现中,AI Agent可以根据靶点信息和化合物结构,自动设计合成路径或筛选方案。在生命科学领域,AI Agent能够辅助规划从细胞培养、基因编辑到动物模型构建的复杂实验流程,并推荐合适的试剂、设备和参数设置。这种定制化能力显著减少了研究人员手动查阅资料和经验性试错的时间成本。
  • 模拟预实验过程与结果预测: 传统实验往往需要耗费大量资源和时间进行预实验以验证方案的可行性。AI Agent可以通过构建“数字孪生”(Digital Twin)或模拟环境来执行虚拟预实验 1819。例如,在临床试验设计中,AI Agent可以利用历史临床数据、疾病模型和药物作用机制,模拟不同剂量、给药方案或患者群体下的药物效果和安全性,从而预测潜在的实验结果,优化试验设计参数。这种虚拟模拟能力能够大幅降低实际实验的失败风险和成本,尤其是在高风险、高成本的实验(如大型动物实验或临床试验)中价值巨大。例如,针对癫痫或抑郁症等疾病,AI模型可以通过模拟临床试验数据,预测个体患者对不同药物的反应,从而指导个性化治疗方案的选择,避免了传统的试错治疗过程 20212223。
  • 评估方案可行性与伦理合规性: 除了技术可行性,AI Agent还能在实验设计阶段纳入伦理审查和合规性评估。通过分析实验方案与现有伦理指南、法规(如涉及动物福利、人体研究、数据隐私等)的符合程度,AI Agent可以识别潜在的伦理风险并提出改进建议。例如,在涉及人类基因组数据的研究中,AI Agent可以评估数据使用协议是否符合GDPR等隐私法规要求。此外,对于多智能体系统(Multi-Agent Systems, MAS)中的伦理问题,例如在金融服务中的风险评估和欺诈检测,AI Agent能够通过框架分析,确保系统的公平性和透明度 24。这有助于研究人员在实验开始前就将伦理考量融入设计,避免后期返工或法律风险。

AI Agent在降低科研试错成本方面的价值:
AI Agent在实验设计中的应用,最显著的价值在于大幅降低了科研的试错成本。具体体现在:

  • 节省时间与资源: 通过自动化方案生成和虚拟预实验,减少了实际实验室操作的时间和耗材消耗。
  • 提高成功率: 智能筛选和预测功能有助于选择更有可能成功的实验路径,避免不必要的失败尝试。
  • 加速创新: 研究人员可以更快地测试更多假设,从而加速新知识的发现和技术的突破。
  • 优化风险管理: 在实验设计阶段就识别和规避技术、伦理和合规风险,使得研究过程更加稳健。
    这种从经验驱动向数据驱动、智能辅助的转变,正在重塑科研范式,使研究人员能够更专注于创新性思维和高层次问题解决。

2.3 多模态科研数据自动化分析与规律挖掘

现代科研的显著特征之一是数据爆炸式增长,尤其是在生命科学、医学、环境科学等领域,研究人员需要处理包括文本、数值、图像、视频、测序数据等在内的海量多模态数据。AI Agent在处理和分析这些复杂数据方面展现出无与伦比的优势,能够自动化完成从数据清洗、特征提取到模型构建、规律挖掘的整个流程,从而加速科学发现。

AI Agent处理多模态科研数据、自动完成分析与推导的技术路径:

  • 数据预处理与特征工程: AI Agent能够针对不同模态的数据特点,自动执行数据清洗、标准化、归一化等预处理步骤。例如,对于文本数据,它能进行分词、词向量嵌入(如Word2Vec, BERT)以捕捉语义信息;对于图像数据,则运用卷积神经网络(CNN)进行特征提取,识别关键模式(如医学影像中的病灶、材料显微结构中的缺陷)25;对于基因测序数据,AI Agent可以识别基因突变、表达差异或进行单细胞分析。其核心在于利用深度学习(DL)等技术,从原始的多模态数据中自动学习和提取高层次、有意义的特征,极大地减少了传统方法中手动特征工程的繁琐和主观性。
  • 多模态数据融合与关联分析: AI Agent通过设计有效的融合策略,将来自不同模态的特征信息整合到一个统一的表示空间中。例如,在医学诊断中,AI Agent可以同时分析患者的病史文本、影像数据(如MRI、CT)和基因组数据,从而得到更全面、更精确的诊断结果。在材料科学中,它可以将化学成分、晶体结构图像和力学性能数据关联起来,预测新材料的潜在应用。通过图神经网络(GNN)或其他关联模型,AI Agent能够发现不同数据模态之间的深层关联和潜在的因果关系,揭示复杂系统背后的运行机制。
  • 自动化统计分析与模型构建: 基于融合后的多模态特征,AI Agent能够自主选择并构建合适的统计模型或机器学习模型。这包括但不限于分类、回归、聚类、降维以及更复杂的预测模型。例如,在药物研发中,AI Agent可以根据化合物结构、生物活性数据和临床试验结果,预测药物的有效性和毒性。在气候建模中,它可以整合卫星图像、传感器数据和历史气象记录,预测未来气候变化趋势。AI Agent能够通过强化学习或元学习等方法,根据数据特性和任务目标,动态调整模型结构和参数,实现模型构建的自动化和优化。
  • 结论推导与知识发现: AI Agent不仅能输出分析结果,还能根据模型输出进行高级推理,帮助研究人员从数据中发现新的科学规律和假设。例如,在病理分析中,AI Agent可以识别出图像中与特定疾病相关的微观特征,并结合病理报告和基因表达数据,推导出新的生物标志物或疾病机制。在材料合成中,AI Agent可以根据高通量实验数据,自动发现新的合成路径或工艺参数,甚至提出全新的材料设计原理。这种能力使得AI Agent能够从“数据分析工具”升级为“科学发现的智能伙伴”。

AI Agent向低代码、高可解释性方向的升级趋势:

  • 低代码/无代码平台集成: 考虑到科研人员背景的多样性,未来的AI Agent将更多地集成到低代码/无代码分析平台中。这意味着即使不具备深厚编程知识的科研人员,也能够通过图形用户界面、拖拽式操作或自然语言指令来配置和运行复杂的AI分析流程。这将极大降低AI工具的使用门槛,让更多的科研团队能够利用AI赋能数据分析。
  • 可解释人工智能(XAI)的深度融合: “黑箱”问题是当前AI在科研领域面临的主要挑战之一。为了提升科研人员对AI分析结果的信任度,AI Agent正向高可解释性方向发展。可解释人工智能(Explainable AI, XAI)技术,例如注意力机制、局部可解释模型无关解释(LIME)和Shapley值等,将被更广泛地集成到AI Agent中14。这些技术能够揭示AI模型做出特定判断或预测的依据,例如,指出在医学影像分析中,AI模型是基于哪些特定区域或特征来判断病灶的;在化合物筛选中,是根据哪些分子结构特性预测其活性的。通过提供清晰、透明的解释,XAI将帮助科研人员理解AI的决策逻辑,验证其科学合理性,从而促进AI分析结果在科研实践中的采纳和信任。未来的AI Agent将不仅给出“是什么”,更能解释“为什么”,从而在人机协同中实现更深层次的科学发现。

2.4 结构化论文写作辅助与期刊适配优化

论文写作是科研成果转化的重要环节,但其耗时费力,对语言表达、逻辑结构和格式规范性要求极高。AI Agent正通过自动化和智能化的方式,革新传统的论文写作模式,帮助研究人员提升写作效率和质量。

AI Agent在结构化论文写作辅助中的应用场景:

  • 论文各章节内容撰写辅助: AI Agent能够基于用户提供的研究数据、实验结果、初步构思或关键信息,协助撰写论文的各个章节。例如,在引言部分,AI Agent可以根据主题生成背景介绍、研究现状综述和研究目的阐述;在方法部分,它可以根据实验设计细节生成详细的实验步骤描述;在结果部分,AI Agent能够将数据图表转化为清晰的文字描述,并突出关键发现;在讨论和结论部分,它能帮助组织论证逻辑,提炼研究贡献和未来展望。一些研究表明,大型语言模型(LLM)能够与作者协作进行创意写作,帮助克服写作障碍并生成高质量的文本 26。AI Agent通过理解上下文和领域知识,能够生成符合学术规范的语句,有效缓解研究人员的写作压力。
  • 参考文献自动校准与管理: 参考文献的格式规范性和准确性是衡量论文质量的重要指标。AI Agent可以自动识别论文中引用的文献,并根据指定的引用样式(如APA、MLA、Vancouver等)进行格式调整,确保所有参考文献的一致性。它还能核对参考文献的详细信息,例如作者、出版年份、期刊名称、DOI等,并自动修正错误或补充缺失信息,从而大幅减少人工校对的工作量和出错率。
  • 格式适配目标期刊要求: 不同的学术期刊对论文的格式、结构、字数、图表呈现方式等都有严格的要求。AI Agent可以集成各类期刊的投稿指南,自动将论文调整为目标期刊的指定格式。这包括调整页边距、字体、段落间距、标题层级,以及图表标题、图例和参考文献的排版等。例如,它可以帮助研究人员根据PRISMA 2020指南(系统综述报告的更新指导)调整报告结构和内容,确保符合透明、完整和准确的报告标准 27。这种功能显著简化了投稿前的准备工作,提高了论文被接收的可能性。

AI Agent向学科专属表达优化、原创性辅助校验方向的发展方向:

  • 学科专属表达优化: 未来AI Agent将更加深入地理解不同学科领域的专业术语、表达习惯和写作风格。它不仅能进行基础的语言润色和语法检查,还能根据论文所属的细分学科,提供更加精准、地道的专业表达建议。例如,在医学领域,AI Agent能够确保术语的规范性,并帮助研究人员将复杂概念用清晰、严谨的语言表达出来;在计算机科学领域,它能协助优化算法描述的精确性和代码引用的规范性。这种深度定制化的语言优化将使论文更具专业性和可读性,提高其在专业读者群体中的接受度。
  • 原创性辅助校验: 随着AI生成内容的普及,论文的原创性问题日益突出。未来的AI Agent将发展出更强大的原创性辅助校验功能。这不仅包括传统的抄袭检测,更重要的是,它能够分析论文内容的逻辑结构、论证深度和创新点,与现有文献进行对比,辅助识别潜在的“思想抄袭”或观点同质化风险。例如,AI Agent可以评估论文提出的新颖性假设是否在现有知识体系中已得到充分论证或被忽略,从而帮助研究人员确保其研究的独创性。同时,它还能提供内容溯源的建议,帮助作者审视和完善论文的原创贡献声明,以应对未来科研诚信监管中对AI辅助写作的新要求。

2.5 同行评审环节的智能辅助与效率提升

同行评审是学术出版质量控制的关键环节,但其面临着稿件量剧增、审稿人招募困难、审稿周期长以及评审质量不一等挑战。AI Agent正被积极引入同行评审流程,以期通过智能化辅助来缓解这些压力,提升效率和公平性 28。

AI Agent协助编辑完成稿件初筛、匹配对口审稿人、识别内容逻辑漏洞与学术不端线索的应用模式:

  • 稿件初筛与预评估: AI Agent能够对新提交的稿件进行快速的初步评估。这包括检查稿件是否符合期刊的基本格式要求、语言质量、文章完整性等,并可以利用关键词提取、主题模型等技术判断稿件内容是否与期刊范围匹配 29。例如,AI工具可以识别抄袭、重复发表、不恰当的作者署名以及一些低质量的研究,从而减轻编辑和审稿人的初步工作负担 30。有些AI系统甚至可以尝试评估研究的质量或总结其内容,从而降低审稿人的工作量 28。
  • 匹配对口审稿人: 准确高效地匹配审稿人是同行评审中的一项复杂任务。AI Agent可以利用自然语言处理技术分析稿件的主题、关键词、引用文献以及作者的研究领域,然后与期刊的审稿人数据库进行比对,根据审稿人的专业背景、过往审稿记录、发表论文主题和审稿偏好等多个维度,推荐最适合该稿件的潜在审稿人 2831。这不仅提高了匹配的准确性,还大大缩短了人工筛选审稿人所需的时间。
  • 识别内容逻辑漏洞与学术不端线索:
    • 逻辑漏洞检测: AI Agent可以辅助审稿人或编辑检查论文内容的逻辑一致性。例如,它可以分析引言、方法、结果和讨论部分之间是否存在矛盾,或者论证链条中是否有薄弱环节。通过语义分析和知识图谱,AI Agent能够识别出数据与结论之间的不一致性,或方法描述与实际执行之间的潜在脱节。
    • 学术不端检测: AI Agent在检测学术不端行为方面具有巨大潜力,这对于维护科研诚信至关重要。它不仅能进行传统的文本相似度检测(抄袭),还能进一步识别数据造假、篡改或伪造的线索 32。例如,AI系统能够通过分析统计数据分布、图片异常(如重复使用、PS痕迹)以及引文的合理性来发现潜在的捏造或伪造行为 3334。Statcheck和GRIM-Test等AI工具在发现统计错误方面表现出色,能够增加研究的可靠性 33。AI还可以提供关于合作真实性或“论文工厂”活动的预警。

AI Agent在压缩审稿周期、提升评审公平性方面的作用:

  • 压缩审稿周期: 通过自动化稿件初筛、加速审稿人匹配以及辅助审稿内容分析,AI Agent能够显著缩短同行评审的整体周期。这有助于研究成果更快地发表和传播,加速科学知识的积累和应用。当前,审稿周期过长是科研人员普遍抱怨的问题,AI的介入有望缓解这一痛点 29。
  • 提升评审公平性: AI Agent可以在一定程度上降低人为偏见对评审过程的影响。例如,在审稿人匹配时,AI可以基于客观的专业匹配度而非人际关系进行推荐。在内容分析中,AI可以提供更客观的错误或不端行为证据,辅助审稿人做出基于事实的判断。虽然AI系统本身可能复制甚至放大训练数据中的偏差 28,但通过审慎的设计和持续的监督,AI Agent能够促进评审过程的标准化和透明化,从而提高评审的整体公平性。重要的是,AI应作为辅助工具,最终决策仍需人工干预和专业判断 3335。

3. AI Agent科研应用伴生的科研诚信风险与防控难点

3.1 内容生成类风险

AI Agent,特别是基于大型语言模型(LLM)的生成式AI工具,在为科研提供便利的同时,也带来了内容生成方面的潜在科研诚信风险。这些风险主要体现在生成内容可能存在的虚假、误导或缺乏原创性的问题,对科研的真实性、可靠性和创新性构成挑战。

1. 虚构参考文献:
AI Agent在生成文本时,有时会“幻觉”出看似合理但实际上不存在的参考文献36。这种现象被称为“AI幻觉(AI hallucination)”,即模型生成了脱离其训练数据的事实或信息3738。例如,在医学文献检索中,ChatGPT、BingChat和Bard等AI工具被发现存在虚构参考文献、提供不准确或不完整的引文问题39。一项针对ChatGPT生成医学文章的分析显示,其生成的文章中包含17条参考文献,但专家审查后发现部分引用存在错误40。这些虚构的参考文献往往具有逼真的格式,难以通过肉眼快速识别,一旦被研究人员不加核实地引用,不仅会误导读者,降低论文的可信度,还可能在学术界传播错误的知识,对科学研究的严谨性造成长期损害。

2. 伪造实验数据:
虽然AI Agent直接“伪造”原始实验数据的情况相对较少,但其生成的数据描述、统计分析结果或实验图表可能存在捏造或与真实实验不符的风险。例如,AI Agent在撰写实验报告时,可能会基于上下文和领域知识“脑补”出合理的数值或趋势,而非严格忠于实际实验数据。特别是在生成式AI能够辅助图像生成和处理的背景下,AI Agent甚至可以生成看起来真实但实际上是虚构的实验结果图像,例如,伪造不存在的濒危物种影像来支持某一研究结论41。这种行为本质上构成了学术欺诈,严重侵蚀了科研的基石——数据的真实性。

3. 观点同质化:
AI Agent通过学习海量的现有文本数据来生成内容。这意味着其生成的内容往往倾向于反映训练数据中已有的主流观点和表达方式。当研究人员过度依赖AI Agent来生成论文内容时,可能导致研究观点、论证逻辑和表达风格的同质化。这会使得新发表的论文缺乏独创性和深度,难以提出真正新颖的见解或突破性的理论。长此以往,将抑制学术多样性和创新思维,使科研成果趋于平庸,阻碍科学的进步。此外,AI生成内容的普遍使用也可能导致“知识泡沫”,即大量看似合理但缺乏实质性贡献的内容充斥学术界,增加了甄别高质量研究的难度。

4. 对科研原创性的影响:
上述内容生成类风险的根本问题在于,它们可能损害科研的原创性。原创性是科学研究的生命线,要求研究工作必须是独立完成的,并提出新的知识、方法或观点。AI Agent虽然可以辅助生成文本,但其本身不具备独立思考和创造新知识的能力3841。当AI生成的内容被误认为是人类的原创成果,或者AI生成的虚假信息被嵌入到研究中时,都会模糊原创与非原创的界限。如果科研界普遍接受了这种由AI辅助甚至主导生成的、可能存在虚假或同质化风险的内容,那么整个科研生态系统的诚信基础将受到严重动摇,最终可能导致公众对科学研究的信任度下降15。因此,科研界需要高度警惕并积极应对AI Agent在内容生成方面带来的诚信风险。

3.2 流程合规类风险

AI Agent 深度参与科研流程,在带来效率革新的同时,也带来了新的流程合规类风险,对现有的科研规范和伦理框架构成了挑战。这些风险主要涉及知识产权的归属、伦理审查的有效性以及原创性界定的复杂性。

1. 知识产权归属模糊:
当AI Agent辅助甚至主导生成科研成果(如实验设计、数据分析报告、论文初稿)时,其知识产权的归属变得复杂且模糊。传统上,知识产权(包括著作权、专利权等)归属于人类创造者。然而,AI Agent本身并非法律实体,不能享有知识产权。那么,由AI Agent生成的内容,其著作权应归属提供指令的研究人员、开发AI Agent的机构、还是提供训练数据的个体?例如,如果AI Agent生成了一个具有创新性的分子结构,并最终导致新药的发现,那么该新药的专利权应如何分配?这种不确定性可能导致潜在的法律纠纷,并阻碍AI Agent在科研领域的进一步应用和推广。目前,全球各国和地区对于AI生成内容的知识产权归属尚未形成统一的法律规定,这使得相关风险更加突出。

2. 伦理审查缺失:
AI Agent在科研中的应用,尤其是在涉及人类受试者、动物实验、敏感数据等领域时,可能面临伦理审查的缺失或不充分。传统的伦理审查委员会(IRB)主要审查人类研究行为,评估实验设计、知情同意、数据隐私保护等方面是否符合伦理规范。然而,当AI Agent作为“研究者”或“辅助决策者”介入时,其行为的伦理边界和责任主体可能不明确。例如,AI Agent在分析大量个人健康数据以发现疾病模式时,其数据处理过程是否充分尊重了隐私权?当AI Agent提出一项实验方案,其中可能包含潜在的伦理风险时,谁来承担审查和批准的责任?研究表明,AI在医疗健康领域的应用,特别是生成式AI,引发了一系列伦理问题,包括数据隐私、算法偏见、责任分配以及对患者自主权的影响等 4243444546。如果AI Agent被用于产生或筛选可能具有偏见的数据集,或者其决策过程缺乏透明度和可解释性,都可能导致不公平的科研实践或结果,从而违背科研伦理的基本原则 47。

3. 原创性界定困难:
原创性是衡量科研成果价值的核心标准之一。然而,AI Agent的介入使得原创性的界定变得日益困难。AI Agent通过学习海量现有数据来生成内容,其本质是对已有知识的整合、重组和再表达。当研究人员依赖AI Agent生成论文或实验设计时,如何区分哪些部分是研究人员的原创贡献,哪些部分是AI Agent基于已有知识的“再创作”?这种界限的模糊性可能导致对科研成果原创性的质疑。例如,如果一篇论文的初稿完全由AI Agent生成,研究人员仅进行少量修改和润色,这篇论文是否仍能被视为原创?过度依赖AI Agent可能导致研究观点同质化,缺乏新颖的见解和突破性的理论,从而削弱科研成果的原创价值。此外,AI生成内容的普遍使用也可能导致学术界“知识泡沫”的出现,即大量看似合理但缺乏实质性贡献的内容充斥学术界,增加了甄别高质量研究的难度。这要求科研界和学术出版机构重新审视并制定关于AI辅助科研成果原创性的新标准和指南,以维护学术的严肃性。

3.3 现有科研监管体系的适配短板

当前科研诚信监管体系的建立主要基于传统的人工科研模式,其设计理念和运行机制在面对AI Agent辅助科研的新范式时,暴露出诸多不适应和短板。这些不足主要体现在难以有效识别AI辅助下的科研不端行为、人机权责边界模糊以及对快速演进的AI技术缺乏及时响应能力。

1. 识别AI辅助科研不端行为的挑战:
现有科研诚信监管体系,包括抄袭检测软件、数据审查流程以及同行评议机制,主要是为了识别由人类行为者实施的不端行为。然而,AI Agent的介入使得传统检测手段面临严峻挑战。

  • 抄袭检测的局限性: 传统的抄袭检测软件主要通过比对文本相似度来工作。然而,高级的AI Agent(如LLMs)能够生成高度原创化、语义连贯的文本,其措辞可能与任何现有文本都不完全相同,从而轻易规避传统的相似度检测。这意味着AI Agent可以生成“原创性”的抄袭内容,使其难以被现有工具识别 48。
  • 数据伪造的隐蔽性: AI Agent不仅可以生成文本,还能辅助生成数据和图像。例如,在医学影像领域,AI可以合成逼真的医学图像,甚至篡改已有图像的细节,使其难以通过肉眼或传统图像分析方法识别出造假痕迹。这使得数据造假行为变得更加隐蔽和难以追溯。
  • “幻觉”内容的识别: AI Agent在生成文本时可能产生“幻觉”,即生成貌似真实但实则虚构的信息,包括虚假的参考文献、不存在的实验方法或研究结果 3749。这些内容与有意为之的造假行为在形式上难以区分,给监管带来了挑战。

2. 权责边界模糊导致问责困难:
在AI Agent参与的科研活动中,当出现科研不端行为时,如何界定责任主体是现有监管体系面临的一大难题。

  • 作者责任的重新定义: 国际医学期刊编辑委员会(ICMJE)等权威机构明确指出,AI工具不能作为论文作者,因为它们无法承担作者应有的责任,如对研究的完整性和准确性负责,或对版权协议进行同意 4950。然而,如果AI Agent在研究过程中产生了虚假数据或不当内容,责任应完全归咎于人类作者,还是AI的开发者也应承担部分责任?当AI Agent深度参与实验设计和数据分析,其错误输出导致研究偏差时,将责任完全归咎于人类作者显得不尽合理。
  • AI工具提供者的责任: 现有框架通常不追究AI工具提供商的责任,但在AI工具产生“幻觉”或偏见内容导致科研不端时,其作为工具提供者的责任应如何界定?例如,如果一个AI Agent因训练数据中的偏见而生成了带有歧视性的研究方案,责任应如何分配?
  • 监管主体的缺位: 目前尚缺乏针对AI辅助科研不端行为的专门监管主体和问责机制。科研机构、期刊出版社、资助机构等各自为政,难以形成统一有效的监管合力。

3. 对AI技术快速演进的响应滞后:
AI技术,特别是生成式AI和AI Agent,正以惊人的速度发展和迭代。

  • 政策制定滞后: 科研诚信政策的制定通常是一个漫长而审慎的过程,难以跟上AI技术的快速发展。当新的AI功能出现并被广泛应用时,相应的伦理指南和合规政策往往尚未出台,导致在一段时间内处于“灰色地带” 1550。例如,许多期刊和机构正努力更新其关于AI使用的政策,但行业范围内的统一标准尚未完全形成 49。
  • 技术识别能力不足: 针对AI生成内容的检测技术也在不断发展,但往往滞后于AI生成本身的技术进步。当一种AI生成方式被识别后,新的生成技术可能又已出现,形成“道高一尺魔高一丈”的局面。例如,虽然有AI检测工具,但其有效性和准确性仍存在争议,并可能误判 51。
  • 伦理困境的累积: AI的快速发展也带来了持续的伦理困境,例如,AI的创造性问题、AI在知识生产中的角色等 5253。这些深层次的伦理问题尚未得到充分探讨和解决,导致监管体系在应对时缺乏坚实的理论基础。

综上所述,现有科研诚信监管体系在AI Agent辅助科研时代面临的适配短板是多方面的,需要科研界、学术出版机构、政策制定者以及AI开发者共同努力,构建更加完善、灵活且前瞻性的监管框架。

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First, to review the progress we have made so far, highlighting past efforts that contain valuable lessons for the future. Second, drawing on these lessons, to identify promising current and future opportunities for AI in chemical engineering. To avoid getting caught up in the current excitement and to assess the prospects more carefully, it is important to take such a longer and broader view, as a "reality check." Third, since AI is going to play an increasingly dominant role in chemical engineering research and education, it is important to recount and record, however incomplete, certain early milestones for historical purposes. It is apparent that chemical engineering is at an important crossroads. Our discipline is undergoing an unprecedented transition—one that presents significant challenges and opportunities in modeling and automated decision-making. This has been driven by the convergence of cheap and powerful computing and communications platforms, tremendous progress in molecular engineering, the ever-increasing automation of globally integrated operations, tightening environmental constraints, and business demands for speedier delivery of goods and services to market. One important outcome from this convergence is the generation, use, and management of massive amounts of diverse data, information, and knowledge, and this is where AI, particularly ML, would play an important role. Some of these are application-focused, such as game playing and vision. Others are methodological, such as expert systems and ML—the two branches that are most directly and immediately applicable to our domain, and hence the focus of this article. These are the ones that have been investigated the most in the last 35 years by AI researchers in chemical engineering. While the current "buzz" is mostly around ML, the expert system framework holds important symbolic knowledge representation concepts and inference techniques that could prove useful in the years ahead as we strive to develop more comprehensive solutions that go beyond the purely data-centric emphasis of ML. Many tasks in these different branches of AI share certain common features. They all require pattern recognition, reasoning, and decision-making under complex conditions. And they often deal with ill-defined problems, noisy data, model uncertainties, combinatorially large search spaces, nonlinearities, and the need for speedy solutions. But such features are also found in many problems in process systems engineering (PSE)—in synthesis, design, control, scheduling, optimization, and risk management. So, some of us thought, in the early-1980s, that we should examine such problems from an AI perspective.15-17 Just as it is today, the excitement about AI at that time was centered on expert systems. It was palpable and contagious, with high expectations for AI's near-term potential.18-20 Hundreds of millions of dollars were invested in AI start-ups as well as within large companies. AI spurred the development of special purpose hardware, called Lisp machines (e.g., Symbolics Lisp machines). Promising proof-of-concept systems were demonstrated in many domains, including chemical engineering (see below). In this phase, it was expected that AI would have a significant impact in chemical engineering in the near future. However, unlike optimization and model predictive control, AI did not quite live up to its early promise. So, what happened? Why was not AI as impactful? Before addressing this question, it is necessary to examine the different phases of AI, as I classify them, in chemical engineering. While major efforts to developing AI methods for chemical engineering problems started in the early 1980s, it is remarkable that some researchers (for instance, Gary Powers, Dale Rudd, and Jeff Siirola) were investigating AI in PSE in the late 1960s and early 1970s.21 In particular, the Adaptive Initial DEsign Synthesizer system, developed by Siirola and Rudd22 for process synthesis, represents a significant development. This was arguably the first system that employed AI methods such as means-and-ends analysis, symbolic manipulation, and linked data structures in chemical engineering. Phase I, the Expert Systems Era (from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s), saw the first broad effort to exploit AI in chemical engineering. Expert systems, also called knowledge-based systems, rule-based systems, or production systems, are computer programs that mimic the problem-solving of humans with expertise in a given domain.23, 24 Expert problem-solving typically involves large amounts of specialized knowledge, called domain knowledge, often in the form of rules of thumb, called heuristics, typically learned and refined over years of problem-solving experience. The amount of knowledge manipulated is often vast, and the expert system rapidly narrows down the search by recognizing patterns and by using the appropriate heuristics. The architecture of these systems was inspired by the stimulus–response model of cognition from psychology and pattern-matching-and-search model of symbolic computation, which originated in Emil Post's work in symbolic logic. Building on this work, Simon and Newell in the late 1960s and 1970s devised the production system framework, an important conceptual, representational, and architectural breakthrough, for developing expert systems.25-27 The crucial insight here was that one needs to, and one can, separate domain knowledge from its order of execution, that is, from search or inference, thereby achieving the necessary computational flexibility to address ill-structured problems. In contrast, conventional programs consist of a set of statements whose order of execution is predetermined. Therefore, if the execution order is not known or cannot be anticipated a priori, as in the case of medical diagnosis, for example, this approach will not work. Expert systems programming alleviated this problem by making a clear distinction between the knowledge base and the search or inference strategy. This not only allowed for flexible execution, it also facilitated the incremental addition of knowledge, without distorting the overall program structure. This rule-based knowledge representation and architecture are intuitive, and relatively easy to understand and generate explanations about the system's decisions. This new approach facilitated the development of a number of impressive expert systems, starting with MYCIN, an expert system for diagnosing infectious diseases28 developed at Stanford University during 1972–82. This led to other successful systems such as PROSPECTOR (for mineral prospecting29), R1 (configuring Vax computers30), and so on, in this era. These systems inspired the first expert system application in chemical engineering, CONPHYDE, developed in 1983 by Bañares-Alcántara, Westerberg, and Rychner at Carnegie Mellon16 for predicting thermophysical properties of complex fluid mixtures. CONPHYDE was implemented using Knowledge Acquisition System that was used for PROSPECTOR. This was quickly followed by DECADE, in 1985, again from the same CMU researchers,17 for catalyst design. There was other such remarkable early work in process synthesis, design, modeling, and diagnosis as well. In synthesis and in design, for instance, important conceptual advances were made by Stephanopoulos and his students, starting with Design-Kit,31 and in modeling, MODELL.LA, a language for developing process models.32 In process fault diagnosis, Davis33 and Kramer,34, 35 and their groups, made important contributions in the same period. My group developed causal model-based diagnostic expert systems,36 a departure from the heuristics-based approach, which was the dominant theme of the time. We also demonstrated the potential of learning expert systems, an unusual idea at that time as automated learning in expert systems was not in vogue.37 The need for causal models in AI, a topic that has emerged as very important now,38 was also recognized in those early years.39 This period also saw expert system work commencing in Europe,40 particularly for conceptual design support. An important large-scale program in this era was the Abnormal Situation Management (ASM) consortium, funded at $17 million by the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Advanced Technology Program and by the leading oil companies, under the leadership of Honeywell.41 Three different academic groups, led by Davis (Ohio State), Vicente (University of Toronto), and myself at Purdue, were also involved in the consortium. This program is the forerunner to the current Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute that was funded in 2016.42 The first course on AI in PSE was developed and taught at Columbia University in 1986, and it was subsequently offered at Purdue University for many years. The earlier offerings had an expert systems emphasis, but as ML advanced, in later years, the course evolved to include topics such as clustering, neural networks, statistical classifiers, graph-based models, and genetic algorithms. In 1986, Stephanopoulos published an article43 titled, "Artificial Intelligence in Process Engineering", in which he discussed the potential of AI in process engineering and outlined a research program to realize it. Coincidentally, in the same issue, I had a article with the same title, which described the Columbia course.44 In my article, I discussed topics from the course, and it mirrored what Stephanopoulos had outlined as the research program. (Curiously, we did not know each other at that time and had written our articles independently, yet with the same title, at the same time, with almost the same content, and had submitted to the same journal for the same issue!) The first AIChE session on AI was organized by Gary Powers (CMU) at the annual meeting held in Chicago in 1985. The first national meeting on AI in process engineering was held in 1987 at Columbia University, co-organized by Venkatasubramanian, Stephanopoulos, and Davis, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and Air Products. The first international conference, Intelligent Systems in Process Engineering (ISPE'95), sponsored by the Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering (CACHE) Corporation, was co-organized by Stephanopoulos, Davis, and Venkatasubramanian, held at Snowmass, CO, in July 1995. The CACHE Corporation had also organized an Expert Systems Task Force in 1985, under the leadership of Stephanopoulos, to develop tools for the instruction of AI in chemical engineering.45 The task force published a series of monographs on AI in process engineering during 1989–1993. Despite impressive successes, the expert system approach did not quite take-off as it suffered from serious drawbacks. It took a lot of effort, time, and money to develop a credible expert system for industrial applications. Furthermore, it was also difficult and expensive to maintain and update the knowledge base as new information came in or the target application changed, such as in the retrofitting of a chemical plant. This approach did not scale well for practical applications (more on this in sections Lack of impact of AI during Phases I and II and Are things different now for AI to have impact?). As the excitement about expert systems waned in the 1990s due to these practical difficulties, interest in another AI technique was picking up greatly. This was the beginning of Phase II, the Neural Networks Era, roughly from 1990 onward. This was a crucial shift from the top-down design paradigm of expert systems to the bottom-up paradigm of neural nets that acquired knowledge automatically from large amounts of data, thus easing the maintenance and development of models. It all started with the reinvention of the backpropagation algorithm by Rumelhart, Hinton, and Williams in 1986 for training feedforward neural networks to learn hidden patterns in input–output data. It had been proposed earlier, in 1974, by Paul Werbos as part of his Ph.D. thesis at Harvard. It is essentially an algorithm for implementing gradient descent search, using the chain rule in calculus, to propagate errors back through the network to adjust the strength (i.e., weights) of connections between nodes iteratively, to make the network learn the patterns. While the idea of neural networks had been around since 1943 from the work of McCulloch and Pitts, and was further developed by Rosenblatt, Minsky, and Papert in the 1960s, these earlier models were limited in scope as they could not handle problems with nonlinearity. The key breakthrough this time was the ability to solve nonlinear function approximation and nonlinear classification problems in an automated manner using the backpropagation learning algorithm. The typical structure of a feedforward neural network from this era is shown in Figure 1, with its input, hidden, and output layers of neurons, and their associated signals, weights and biases. The figure also shows examples of nonlinear function approximation and nonlinear classification problems such networks were able to solve provided enough data were available.46 (a) Architecture of a feedforward neural network. (b) Examples of nonlinear function approximation and classification problems. Adapted from: https://medium.com/@curiousily/tensorflow-for-hackers-part-iv-neural-network-from-scratch-1a4f504dfa8 https://neustan.wordpress.com/2015/09/05/neural-networks-vs-svm-where-when-and-above-all-why/ http://mccormickml.com/2015/08/26/rbfn-tutorial-part-ii-function-approximation/ This novel automated nonlinear modeling ability spurred a tremendous amount of work in a variety of domains including chemical engineering.47 Researchers made substantial progress on addressing challenging problems in modeling,48, 49 fault diagnosis,50-55 control,56, 57 and product design.58 In particular, the recognition of the connection between the autoencoder architecture and the nonlinear principal component analysis by Kramer,48 and the recognition of the nature of the basis function approximation of neural networks through the WaveNet architecture by Bakshi and Stephanopoulos49 are outstanding contributions. There were hundreds of articles in our domain during this phase and only some of the earliest and key articles are highlighted here. While this phase was largely driven by neural networks, researchers also made progress on expert systems (such as the ASM consortium) and genetic algorithms at that time. For instance, we proposed59 directed evolution of engineering polymers in silico using genetic algorithms. This led in subsequent years60 to the multiscale model-based informatics framework called Discovery Informatics61 for materials design. The discovery informatics framework led to the successful development of materials design systems using directed evolution in several industrial applications, such as gasoline additives,62 formulated rubbers,63 and catalyst design.64 During this period, researchers were also beginning to realize the challenges and opportunities in multiscale modeling using informatics techniques.65, 66 Other important advances not using neural networks included research into frameworks and architectures for building AI systems, such as blackboard architectures, integrated problem-solving-and-learning systems, and cognitive architectures. Architectures such as Prodigy and Soar are examples of this work.67 Similarly, there was progress in process synthesis and in design,68 domain-specific representations and languages,32, 69 domain-specific compilers,70 ontologies,71, 72 modeling environments,32, 73 molecular structure search engines,74 automatic reaction network generators,64 and chemical entities extraction systems.74 These references by no means constitute a comprehensive list. All this work, and others along similar lines, performed some two decades ago is still relevant and useful today in the modern era of data science. Building such systems using modern tools presents major opportunities. Despite the surprising success of neural networks in many practical applications, some especially challenging problems in vision, natural language processing, and speech understanding remained beyond the capabilities of the neural nets of this era. 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10Artificial Intelligence (AI): Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice and policyOpenAlex

Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Laurie Hughes, Elvira Ismagilova, et al.
As far back as the industrial revolution, significant development in technical innovation has succeeded in transforming numerous manual tasks and processes that had been in existence for decades where humans had reached the limits of physical capacity. Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers this same transformative potential for the augmentation and potential replacement of human tasks and activities within a wide range of industrial, intellectual and social applications. The pace of change for this new AI technological age is staggering, with new breakthroughs in algorithmic machine learning and autonomous decision-making, engendering new opportunities for continued innovation. The impact of AI could be significant, with industries ranging from: finance, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, supply chain, logistics and utilities, all potentially disrupted by the onset of AI technologies. The study brings together the collective insight from a number of leading expert contributors to highlight the significant opportunities, realistic assessment of impact, challenges and potential research agenda posed by the rapid emergence of AI within a number of domains: business and management, government, public sector, and science and technology. This research offers significant and timely insight to AI technology and its impact on the future of industry and society in general, whilst recognising the societal and industrial influence on pace and direction of AI development.

11Artificial Intelligence for Student Assessment: A Systematic ReviewOpenAlex

Víctor González Calatayud, María Paz Prendes Espinosa, Rosabel Roig-Vila
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being implemented in more and more fields, including education. The main uses of AI in education are related to tutoring and assessment. This paper analyzes the use of AI for student assessment based on a systematic review. For this purpose, a search was carried out in two databases: Scopus and Web of Science. A total of 454 papers were found and, after analyzing them according to the PRISMA Statement, a total of 22 papers were selected. It is clear from the studies analyzed that, in most of them, the pedagogy underlying the educational action is not reflected. Similarly, formative evaluation seems to be the main use of AI. Another of the main functionalities of AI in assessment is for the automatic grading of students. Several studies analyze the differences between the use of AI and its non-use. We discuss the results and conclude the need for teacher training and further research to understand the possibilities of AI in educational assessment, mainly in other educational levels than higher education. Moreover, it is necessary to increase the wealth of research which focuses on educational aspects more than technical development around AI.

12The Impact of AI and LMS Integration on the Future of Higher Education: Opportunities, Challenges, and Strategies for TransformationOpenAlex

Nayef Shaie Alotaibi
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and learning management systems (LMS) is revolutionising higher education, offering unprecedented opportunities for personalised learning, adaptive assessments, and data-driven decision-making. This review investigates the impact of AI–LMS integration on educational quality, student success, and institutional performance in higher education. In addition, this review not only examines the technological integration but also evaluates how AI–LMS systems contribute to sustainable development in higher education through reduced resource consumption, improved accessibility, and enhanced educational equity. Following the PRISMA 2020 guidelines, a comprehensive search of the Scopus database yielded 60 relevant studies published between 2014 and 2023. The review reveals significant benefits of AI–LMS integration, including enhanced student engagement, personalised learning paths, and improved learning outcomes. Key applications include AI-powered conversational agents, adaptive assessments, and learning analytics. However, challenges such as data privacy concerns, algorithmic bias, and the need for faculty training were also identified. The findings highlight strategies for effective AI–LMS implementation, emphasising the importance of ethical considerations and addressing the digital divide. Results demonstrate that AI–LMS integration can significantly enhance educational quality and student performance when implemented thoughtfully. The review also uncovers areas requiring further research, including long-term impacts on learning outcomes, scalability of AI–LMS solutions, and strategies for ensuring equitable access. Future studies should focus on longitudinal assessments of AI–LMS effectiveness, the development of ethical frameworks for AI in education, and the exploration of AI–LMS applications in diverse educational contexts. This review provides valuable insights for higher education institutions seeking to leverage AI–LMS integration to transform teaching and learning practices.

13Systematic review of research on artificial intelligence applications in higher education – where are the educators?OpenAlex

Olaf Zawacki‐Richter, Victoria I. Marín, Melissa Bond, et al.
Abstract According to various international reports, Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIEd) is one of the currently emerging fields in educational technology. Whilst it has been around for about 30 years, it is still unclear for educators how to make pedagogical advantage of it on a broader scale, and how it can actually impact meaningfully on teaching and learning in higher education. This paper seeks to provide an overview of research on AI applications in higher education through a systematic review. Out of 2656 initially identified publications for the period between 2007 and 2018, 146 articles were included for final synthesis, according to explicit inclusion and exclusion criteria. The descriptive results show that most of the disciplines involved in AIEd papers come from Computer Science and STEM, and that quantitative methods were the most frequently used in empirical studies. The synthesis of results presents four areas of AIEd applications in academic support services, and institutional and administrative services: 1. profiling and prediction, 2. assessment and evaluation, 3. adaptive systems and personalisation, and 4. intelligent tutoring systems. The conclusions reflect on the almost lack of critical reflection of challenges and risks of AIEd, the weak connection to theoretical pedagogical perspectives, and the need for further exploration of ethical and educational approaches in the application of AIEd in higher education.

14Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Concepts, taxonomies, opportunities and challenges toward responsible AIOpenAlex

Alejandro Barredo Arrieta, Natalia Díaz-Rodríguez, Javier Del Ser, et al.

15Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policyOpenAlex

Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Nir Kshetri, Laurie Hughes, et al.
Transformative artificially intelligent tools, such as ChatGPT, designed to generate sophisticated text indistinguishable from that produced by a human, are applicable across a wide range of contexts. The technology presents opportunities as well as, often ethical and legal, challenges, and has the potential for both positive and negative impacts for organisations, society, and individuals. Offering multi-disciplinary insight into some of these, this article brings together 43 contributions from experts in fields such as computer science, marketing, information systems, education, policy, hospitality and tourism, management, publishing, and nursing. The contributors acknowledge ChatGPT’s capabilities to enhance productivity and suggest that it is likely to offer significant gains in the banking, hospitality and tourism, and information technology industries, and enhance business activities, such as management and marketing. Nevertheless, they also consider its limitations, disruptions to practices, threats to privacy and security, and consequences of biases, misuse, and misinformation. However, opinion is split on whether ChatGPT’s use should be restricted or legislated. Drawing on these contributions, the article identifies questions requiring further research across three thematic areas: knowledge, transparency, and ethics; digital transformation of organisations and societies; and teaching, learning, and scholarly research. The avenues for further research include: identifying skills, resources, and capabilities needed to handle generative AI; examining biases of generative AI attributable to training datasets and processes; exploring business and societal contexts best suited for generative AI implementation; determining optimal combinations of human and generative AI for various tasks; identifying ways to assess accuracy of text produced by generative AI; and uncovering the ethical and legal issues in using generative AI across different contexts.

16LITERAS: Biomedical literature review and citation retrieval agentsOpenAlex

Alon Gorenshtein, Kamel Shihada, Moran Sorka, et al.

17An AI Agent-Based System for Retrieving Compound Information in Traditional Chinese MedicineOpenAlex

Feifan Zhao, Qianjin Li, Meng Wang, et al.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), as a vital component of traditional healthcare systems, relies heavily on its chemical constituents, which serve as a bridge between ancient therapeutic theories and modern biomedical science. Efficient access to compound-related information is crucial for promoting the modernization and scientific understanding of TCM. However, existing approaches primarily rely on fragmented databases and literature-based retrieval methods, which suffer from low intelligence, poor data integration, and limited retrieval efficiency.This study presents a novel AI agent-based retrieval system tailored for compound information in TCM. The core innovation of the system lies in its hybrid retrieval-augmented generation framework, which seamlessly combines structured database queries with semantic vector retrieval. Furthermore, it integrates knowledge from three complementary sources—locally built knowledge bases, domain-specific APIs, and open web search—allowing for comprehensive coverage and adaptive handling of diverse natural language queries. Experiments conducted on a benchmark dataset of 150 compound-related queries demonstrate that the system achieves a peak accuracy of 96.67% across multiple mainstream LLMs. Ablation studies further reveal that removing either the hybrid RAG or multi-source knowledge module leads to a notable accuracy decline, while the full system outperforms typical RAG baselines by over 25%. These results confirm the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed architecture in TCM compound retrieval, and highlight the advantage of combining structured matching with dynamic knowledge access in specialized biomedical applications.

18Digital Twin: Values, Challenges and Enablers From a Modeling PerspectiveOpenAlex

Adil Rasheed, Omer San, Trond Kvamsdal
Digital twin can be defined as a virtual representation of a physical asset enabled through data and simulators for real-time prediction, optimization, monitoring, controlling, and improved decision making. Recent advances in computational pipelines, multiphysics solvers, artificial intelligence, big data cybernetics, data processing and management tools bring the promise of digital twins and their impact on society closer to reality. Digital twinning is now an important and emerging trend in many applications. Also referred to as a computational megamodel, device shadow, mirrored system, avatar or a synchronized virtual prototype, there can be no doubt that a digital twin plays a transformative role not only in how we design and operate cyber-physical intelligent systems, but also in how we advance the modularity of multi-disciplinary systems to tackle fundamental barriers not addressed by the current, evolutionary modeling practices. In this work, we review the recent status of methodologies and techniques related to the construction of digital twins mostly from a modeling perspective. Our aim is to provide a detailed coverage of the current challenges and enabling technologies along with recommendations and reflections for various stakeholders.

19Increasing acceptance of AI-generated digital twins through clinical trial applications.PubMed

Anna A Vidovszky, Charles K Fisher, Anton D Loukianov, et al.
Clin Transl Sci. 2024 Jul;17(7):e13897. doi: 10.1111/cts.13897.
Today's approach to medicine requires extensive trial and error to determine the proper treatment path for each patient. While many fields have benefited from technological breakthroughs in computer science, such as artificial intelligence (AI), the task of developing effective treatments is actually getting slower and more costly. With the increased availability of rich historical datasets from previous clinical trials and real-world data sources, one can leverage AI models to create holistic forecasts of future health outcomes for an individual patient in the form of an AI-generated digital twin. This could support the rapid evaluation of intervention strategies in silico and could eventually be implemented in clinical practice to make personalized medicine a reality. In this work, we focus on uses for AI-generated digital twins of clinical trial participants and contend that the regulatory outlook for this technology within drug development makes it an ideal setting for the safe application of AI-generated digital twins in healthcare. With continued research and growing regulatory acceptance, this path will serve to increase trust in this technology and provide momentum for the widespread adoption of AI-generated digital twins in clinical practice.

20Comparative effectiveness of anti-seizure medications in emulated trials using medical informatics.PubMed

Kevin Xie, Jacob Korzun, Daniel J Zhou, et al.
Brain. 2025 Dec 4;148(12):4288-4298. doi: 10.1093/brain/awaf238.
Anti-seizure medications (ASMs) are often prescribed using a trial-and-error approach with a similar sequence for many patients. Comparative effectiveness data beyond the first ASM prescription are limited. Artificial intelligence can automatically extract information from electronic health records (EHRs) and augment clinical trials. We conducted a retrospective cohort comparative effectiveness study of currently available ASMs using emulated clinical trials through a causal inference- and informatics-based framework. We extracted data from EHRs using natural language processing algorithms to collect epilepsy covariates and seizure outcomes. We compared ASMs using weighted Kaplan-Meier analyses and log-rank tests with Bonferroni corrections. We compared ASMs across seizure freedom over 2 years of follow-up, and drug retention rate over 5 years of follow-up. Emulated trials included 1596 patients (8379 patient-years) for seizure freedom as outcome and 2945 patients (14 238 patient-years) for retention as outcome. For all epilepsy types, among first-line ASMs, levetiracetam and lamotrigine were superior to oxcarbazepine for seizure freedom (P < 0.001), and levetiracetam was superior to lamotrigine and oxcarbazepine for retention (P < 0.001); among second-line ASMs, lacosamide had the best retention (P < 0.001) but lower seizure freedom rate than topiramate (P = 0.032); among third-line ASMs, cenobamate had longer retention than brivaracetam, but lower seizure freedom rate than clobazam and brivaracetam (P < 0.001). For focal epilepsies, first-line ASMs achieved similar rates of seizure freedom, but levetiracetam remained superior to lamotrigine and oxcarbazepine for retention (P < 0.001); among second-line ASMs, topiramate and lacosamide were both superior to zonisamide for seizure freedom (P < 0.001), while lacosamide remained superior to topiramate and zonisamide for retention (P < 0.002); among third-line ASMs, cenobamate, brivaracetam and clobazam achieved similar retention and seizure freedom. For generalized and unclassified epilepsies, first-line ASMs achieved similar seizure freedom, but levetiracetam remained superior to lamotrigine and oxcarbazepine for retention (P < 0.02); topiramate had the best seizure freedom among second-line ASMs (P < 0.001), while lacosamide again had better retention than zonisamide (P < 0.006); there were insufficient patients included in third-line ASM trials for this subgroup. In conclusion, emulated clinical trials provide a useful framework for studying the comparative effectiveness of anti-seizure medications using real-world observational data. Our findings of differences in seizure freedom and retention between ASMs help to generate hypotheses that should be tested in future prospective, randomized comparative effectiveness trials.

21Personalized medicine in acromegaly: insights from the ACROFAST clinical trial.PubMed

Marta Araujo-Castro, Betina Biagetti, Víctor Navas-Moreno, et al.
Expert Rev Endocrinol Metab. 2025 Nov;20(6):539-552. doi: 10.1080/17446651.2025.2561066. Epub 2025 Sep 29.
INTRODUCTION: Personalized medicine has gained importance in the management of acromegaly, driven by advances in tumor classification, molecular profiling, and imaging modalities. This approach leads to achieved biochemical control more frequently and in a shorter time frame when compared to the usual trial-and-error approach using first-generation somatostatin receptor ligands (fgSRLs) as first-line drug, which is still currently recommended in most clinical guidelines. AREAS COVERED: In this review, we summarize recent advances in personalized medicine for acromegaly, with a particular focus on predictive markers of surgical and medical treatment response. Moreover, we highlight the perspectives gained from the ACROFAST clinical trial, which has contributed with valuable insights into the clinical implementation of individualized therapeutic strategies. EXPERT OPINION: We consider that the future of research in acromegaly lies in the continued advancement and refinement of personalized medicine approaches. ACROFAST has laid critical groundwork by demonstrating how the combination of predictive biomarkers enhances therapeutic outcomes, improving the rate of biochemical remission and in a shorter follow-up period. In addition, the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms trained on multiomic and clinical datasets may be useful to improve outcomes and reduce the trial-and-error nature of current pharmacologic management of acromegaly.

22Development of a differential treatment selection model for depression on consolidated and transformed clinical trial datasets.PubMed

Kelly Perlman, Joseph Mehltretter, David Benrimoh, et al.
Transl Psychiatry. 2024 Jun 21;14(1):263. doi: 10.1038/s41398-024-02970-4.
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is the leading cause of disability worldwide, yet treatment selection still proceeds via "trial and error". Given the varied presentation of MDD and heterogeneity of treatment response, the use of machine learning to understand complex, non-linear relationships in data may be key for treatment personalization. Well-organized, structured data from clinical trials with standardized outcome measures is useful for training machine learning models; however, combining data across trials poses numerous challenges. There is also persistent concern that machine learning models can propagate harmful biases. We have created a methodology for organizing and preprocessing depression clinical trial data such that transformed variables harmonized across disparate datasets can be used as input for feature selection. Using Bayesian optimization, we identified an optimal multi-layer dense neural network that used data from 21 clinical and sociodemographic features as input in order to perform differential treatment benefit prediction. With this combined dataset of 5032 individuals and 6 drugs, we created a differential treatment benefit prediction model. Our model generalized well to the held-out test set and produced similar accuracy metrics in the test and validation set with an AUC of 0.7 when predicting binary remission. To address the potential for bias propagation, we used a bias testing performance metric to evaluate the model for harmful biases related to ethnicity, age, or sex. We present a full pipeline from data preprocessing to model validation that was employed to create the first differential treatment benefit prediction model for MDD containing 6 treatment options.

23Personalised selection of medication for newly diagnosed adult epilepsy: study protocol of a first-in-class, double-blind, randomised controlled trial.PubMed

Daniel Thom, Richard Shek-Kwan Chang, Natasha A Lannin, et al.
BMJ Open. 2025 Apr 5;15(4):e086607. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-086607.
INTRODUCTION: Selection of antiseizure medications (ASMs) for newly diagnosed epilepsy remains largely a trial-and-error process. We have developed a machine learning (ML) model using retrospective data collected from five international cohorts that predicts response to different ASMs as the initial treatment for individual adults with new-onset epilepsy. This study aims to prospectively evaluate this model in Australia using a randomised controlled trial design. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: At least 234 adult patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy will be recruited from 14 centres in Australia. Patients will be randomised 1:1 to the ML group or usual care group. The ML group will receive the ASM recommended by the model unless it is considered contraindicated by the neurologist. The usual care group will receive the ASM selected by the neurologist alone. Both the patient and neurologists conducting the follow-up will be blinded to the group assignment. Both groups will be followed up for 52 weeks to assess treatment outcomes. Additional information on adverse events, quality of life, mood and use of healthcare services and productivity will be collected using validated questionnaires. Acceptability of the model will also be assessed.The primary outcome will be the proportion of participants who achieve seizure-freedom (defined as no seizures during the 12-month follow-up period) while taking the initially prescribed ASM. Secondary outcomes include time to treatment failure, time to first seizure after randomisation, changes in mood assessment score and quality of life score, direct healthcare costs, and loss of productivity during the treatment period.This trial will provide class I evidence for the effectiveness of a ML model as a decision support tool for neurologists to select the first ASM for adults with newly diagnosed epilepsy. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: This study is approved by the Alfred Health Human Research Ethics Committee (Project 130/23). Findings will be presented in academic conferences and submitted to peer-reviewed journals for publication. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: ACTRN12623000209695.

24Advancing innovation in financial stability: A comprehensive review of ai agent frameworks, challenges and applicationsOpenAlex

Satyadhar Joshi
Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents are revolutionizing industries by enabling autonomous decision-making, task execution, and multi-agent collaboration. This paper provides a comprehensive review of AI agent frameworks, focusing on their architectures, applications, and challenges in financial services. We conduct a comparative analysis of leading frameworks, including LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen, evaluating their strengths, limitations, and suitability for complex financial tasks such as trading, risk assessment, and investment analysis. The integration of AI agents in financial markets presents both opportunities and challenges, particularly in terms of regulatory compliance, ethical considerations, and model robustness. We examine agentic AI design patterns, multi-agent systems, and the deployment of AI agents advancing the proposal to use them for fraud detection and risk management. By synthesizing insights from academic research and industry practices, this review identifies key trends and future directions in AI agent development. This work contributes to the growing discourse on AI-driven automation by outlining technical considerations and open challenges in deploying AI agents at scale. We highlight the need for enhanced transparency, interpretability, and security in AI-driven Agentic systems. Our findings provide valuable insights for researchers and practitioners seeking to harness AI agents for more efficient and intelligent decision-making.

25Review of deep learning: concepts, CNN architectures, challenges, applications, future directionsOpenAlex

Laith Alzubaidi, Jinglan Zhang, Amjad J. Humaidi, et al.
In the last few years, the deep learning (DL) computing paradigm has been deemed the Gold Standard in the machine learning (ML) community. Moreover, it has gradually become the most widely used computational approach in the field of ML, thus achieving outstanding results on several complex cognitive tasks, matching or even beating those provided by human performance. One of the benefits of DL is the ability to learn massive amounts of data. The DL field has grown fast in the last few years and it has been extensively used to successfully address a wide range of traditional applications. More importantly, DL has outperformed well-known ML techniques in many domains, e.g., cybersecurity, natural language processing, bioinformatics, robotics and control, and medical information processing, among many others. Despite it has been contributed several works reviewing the State-of-the-Art on DL, all of them only tackled one aspect of the DL, which leads to an overall lack of knowledge about it. Therefore, in this contribution, we propose using a more holistic approach in order to provide a more suitable starting point from which to develop a full understanding of DL. Specifically, this review attempts to provide a more comprehensive survey of the most important aspects of DL and including those enhancements recently added to the field. In particular, this paper outlines the importance of DL, presents the types of DL techniques and networks. It then presents convolutional neural networks (CNNs) which the most utilized DL network type and describes the development of CNNs architectures together with their main features, e.g., starting with the AlexNet network and closing with the High-Resolution network (HR.Net). Finally, we further present the challenges and suggested solutions to help researchers understand the existing research gaps. It is followed by a list of the major DL applications. Computational tools including FPGA, GPU, and CPU are summarized along with a description of their influence on DL. The paper ends with the evolution matrix, benchmark datasets, and summary and conclusion.

26Wordcraft: Story Writing With Large Language ModelsOpenAlex

Ann Yuan, Andy Coenen, Emily Reif, et al.
The latest generation of large neural language models such as GPT-3 have achieved new levels of performance on benchmarks for language understanding and generation. These models have even demonstrated an ability to perform arbitrary tasks without explicit training. In this work, we sought to learn how people might use such models in the process of creative writing. We built Wordcraft, a text editor in which users collaborate with a generative language model to write a story. We evaluated Wordcraft with a user study in which participants wrote short stories with and without the tool. Our results show that large language models enable novel co-writing experiences. For example, the language model is able to engage in open-ended conversation about the story, respond to writers’ custom requests expressed in natural language (such as ”rewrite this text to be more Dickensian”), and generate suggestions that serve to unblock writers in the creative process. Based on these results, we discuss design implications for future human-AI co-writing systems.

27PRISMA 2020 explanation and elaboration: updated guidance and exemplars for reporting systematic reviewsOpenAlex

Matthew J. Page, David Moher, Patrick M. Bossuyt, et al.
The PRISMA 2020 statement includes a checklist of 27 items to guide reporting of systematic reviews In this article we explain why reporting of each item is recommended, present bullet points that detail the reporting recommendations, and present examples from published reviews We hope that uptake of the PRISMA 2020 statement will lead to more transparent, complete, and accurate reporting of systematic reviews, thus facilitating evidence based decision making on 1 September

28AI-assisted peer reviewOpenAlex

Alessandro Checco, Lorenzo Bracciale, Pierpaolo Loreti, et al.
Abstract The scientific literature peer review workflow is under strain because of the constant growth of submission volume. One response to this is to make initial screening of submissions less time intensive. Reducing screening and review time would save millions of working hours and potentially boost academic productivity. Many platforms have already started to use automated screening tools, to prevent plagiarism and failure to respect format requirements. Some tools even attempt to flag the quality of a study or summarise its content, to reduce reviewers’ load. The recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) create the potential for (semi) automated peer review systems, where potentially low-quality or controversial studies could be flagged, and reviewer-document matching could be performed in an automated manner. However, there are ethical concerns, which arise from such approaches, particularly associated with bias and the extent to which AI systems may replicate bias. Our main goal in this study is to discuss the potential, pitfalls, and uncertainties of the use of AI to approximate or assist human decisions in the quality assurance and peer-review process associated with research outputs. We design an AI tool and train it with 3300 papers from three conferences, together with their reviews evaluations. We then test the ability of the AI in predicting the review score of a new, unobserved manuscript, only using its textual content. We show that such techniques can reveal correlations between the decision process and other quality proxy measures, uncovering potential biases of the review process. Finally, we discuss the opportunities, but also the potential unintended consequences of these techniques in terms of algorithmic bias and ethical concerns.

29Use of artificial intelligence and the future of peer reviewOpenAlex

Howard Bauchner, Frederick P. Rivara
Conducting high-quality peer review of scientific manuscripts has become increasingly challenging. The substantial increase in the number of manuscripts, lack of a sufficient number of peer-reviewers, and questions related to effectiveness, fairness, and efficiency, require a different approach. Large-language models, 1 form of artificial intelligence (AI), have emerged as a new approach to help resolve many of the issues facing contemporary medicine and science. We believe AI should be used to assist in the triaging of manuscripts submitted for peer-review publication.

30Troubling Trends in Biomedical Research Publication: "Publish or Perish" Results in a Propensity for Ethical Violations.PubMed

James H Lubowitz, Elizabeth Matzkin, Michael J Rossi
Arthroscopy. 2025 Apr;41(4):859-862. doi: 10.1016/j.arthro.2024.12.017. Epub 2024 Dec 20.
As a result of the "publish or perish" environment for biomedical journal authors, as well as new developments in open access publication models ("pay to publish") and rapid improvements in artificial intelligence large language models (AI LLMs; e.g., ChatGPT), troubling trends and a propensity for ethical violations now exist. Credit is commonly being taken for authorship by those who fail to meet authorial criteria, which is unethical. Experienced coauthors are providing inadequate diligence in drafting, critical review, and final approval of submitted articles, which is unethical or, at the very least, careless. Research lacking originality ("copycat" studies) is becoming common, which although not unethical, is uninteresting and creates a burden for journal reviewers, editors, and, most of all, readers. Publication of least publishable units (LPU or "salami slicing"), where authors divide a single research publication into a number of papers with small amounts of information in each paper, results in quantity rather than quality and is ethically inappropriate. LPU can result in redundancy, self-plagiarism, publication overlap, and duplicate reporting of patient data that can result in inaccurate conclusions in systematic reviews. Duplicate submission of a paper to more than one journal (in the same or different languages), such that the paper is under peer review by multiple journals at the same time is unethical and can result in two or more journals publishing the same article. Duplicate publication (publication of a paper that overlaps substantially with one already published), without clear reference to the previous publication is unethical. Predatory journals, with low standards of quality or peer review, and predatory practices by publishers and owners of ostensibly nonpredatory journals, can result in solicitation and acceptance of articles (as well as author publication charges or fees) for the purpose of generating revenue, rather than for legitimate editorial reasons based on article quality and content. This is unethical. Opportunities exist to mitigate against these trends, and by naming these trends and identifying opportunities to avoid ethical transgression, our well-intentioned community can publish our scholarship in an unimpeachable manner.

31The transformative impact of large language models on medical writing and publishing: current applications, challenges and future directions.PubMed

Sangzin Ahn
Korean J Physiol Pharmacol. 2024 Sep 1;28(5):393-401. doi: 10.4196/kjpp.2024.28.5.393.
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly transforming medical writing and publishing. This review article focuses on experimental evidence to provide a comprehensive overview of the current applications, challenges, and future implications of LLMs in various stages of academic research and publishing process. Global surveys reveal a high prevalence of LLM usage in scientific writing, with both potential benefits and challenges associated with its adoption. LLMs have been successfully applied in literature search, research design, writing assistance, quality assessment, citation generation, and data analysis. LLMs have also been used in peer review and publication processes, including manuscript screening, generating review comments, and identifying potential biases. To ensure the integrity and quality of scholarly work in the era of LLM-assisted research, responsible artificial intelligence (AI) use is crucial. Researchers should prioritize verifying the accuracy and reliability of AI-generated content, maintain transparency in the use of LLMs, and develop collaborative human-AI workflows. Reviewers should focus on higher-order reviewing skills and be aware of the potential use of LLMs in manuscripts. Editorial offices should develop clear policies and guidelines on AI use and foster open dialogue within the academic community. Future directions include addressing the limitations and biases of current LLMs, exploring innovative applications, and continuously updating policies and practices in response to technological advancements. Collaborative efforts among stakeholders are necessary to harness the transformative potential of LLMs while maintaining the integrity of medical writing and publishing.

32Fraud in Medical Publications.PubMed

Consolato Gianluca Nato, Federico Bilotta
Anesthesiol Clin. 2024 Dec;42(4):607-616. doi: 10.1016/j.anclin.2024.02.004. Epub 2024 Mar 15.
This review highlights the increasing prevalence of fraudulent data and publications in medical research, emphasizing the potential harm to patients and the erosion of trust in the medical community. It discusses the impact of low-quality studies on clinical guidelines and patient safety, emphasizing the need for prompt identification. The review proposes using machine learning and artificial intelligence as potential tools to detect anomalies, plagiarism, and data manipulation, potentially improving the peer review process. Despite the acknowledgment of this problem and the growing number of retractions, the review notes a lack of focus on the clinical implications of forged evidence.

33Artificial Intelligence in Detecting Statistical Errors: Implications for Authors, Reviewers, and Editors.PubMed

Fatima Alnaimat, Abdel Rahman Feras AlSamhori, Husam El Sharu, et al.
J Korean Med Sci. 2025 Dec 22;40(49):e342. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2025.40.e342.
Choosing the right statistical tests is essential for reliable results, but errors, like picking the wrong test or misinterpreting data, can easily lead to incorrect conclusions. Research integrity implies presenting research that is honest, clear, and uses correct statistics. By identifying statistical errors, artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as Statcheck and GRIM-Test increase the reliability of research and assist reviewers. AI helps non-experts analyze data, but it can be unpredictable for experts dealing with complex data analysis. Still, its ease of use and growing abilities show promise. Recent studies show that AI is increasingly helpful in research, assisting in spotting errors in methodology, citations, and statistical analyses. Tools like LLMs, Black Spatula, YesNoError, and GRIM-Test improve accuracy, but they need good data and human checks. AI has moderate accuracy overall but performs better in controlled settings. The Statcheck and GRIM-Test are especially good at spotting statistical errors. As more studies are retracted, AI offers helpful, albeit imperfect, support. It can speed up peer review and reduce reviewer workload, but it still has limits, such as bias and a lack of expert judgment. AI also brings risks like misreading results, ethical issues, and privacy concerns, so editors must make final decisions. To use AI safely and effectively, large, well-labeled datasets, teamwork across fields, and secure systems are required. Human oversight is always necessary to review research processes and ensure their reliability; humans must make the final decision and utilize AI responsibly.

34Detecting fabrication in large-scale molecular omics data.PubMed

Michael S Bradshaw, Samuel H Payne
PLoS One. 2021 Nov 30;16(11):e0260395. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260395. eCollection 2021.
Fraud is a pervasive problem and can occur as fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, or theft. The scientific community is not exempt from this universal problem and several studies have recently been caught manipulating or fabricating data. Current measures to prevent and deter scientific misconduct come in the form of the peer-review process and on-site clinical trial auditors. As recent advances in high-throughput omics technologies have moved biology into the realm of big-data, fraud detection methods must be updated for sophisticated computational fraud. In the financial sector, machine learning and digit-frequencies are successfully used to detect fraud. Drawing from these sources, we develop methods of fabrication detection in biomedical research and show that machine learning can be used to detect fraud in large-scale omic experiments. Using the gene copy-number data as input, machine learning models correctly predicted fraud with 58-100% accuracy. With digit frequency as input features, the models detected fraud with 82%-100% accuracy. All of the data and analysis scripts used in this project are available at https://github.com/MSBradshaw/FakeData.

35Navigating academic integrity in biomedical research: the impact of large language models on current practices and future directions.PubMed

Anqi Lin, Zuwei Chen, Aimin Jiang, et al.
Int J Surg. 2026 Feb 1;112(2):4418-4433. doi: 10.1097/JS9.0000000000003839. Epub 2025 Nov 21.
As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance, they have garnered widespread public attention and extensive application across numerous industries and academic disciplines. The proliferation of LLMs has sparked considerable research interest, with studies primarily focusing on their technical characteristics and specific application scenarios. However, systematic research examining the impact of LLMs on academic integrity remains relatively scarce. Academic integrity is of paramount importance in the biomedical field. Therefore, this paper aims to examine both the opportunities and challenges that LLMs present to academic integrity in the biomedical field, and proposes solutions for optimizing the beneficial applications of LLMs. From a positive perspective, LLMs offer substantial benefits to researchers by enhancing research efficiency, improving research quality, and facilitating the generation and dissemination of academic insights. However, they also present numerous challenges, including the potential for promoting academic misconduct, generating content inaccuracies or ambiguous expressions, introducing bias and fairness concerns, compromising peer review mechanisms, facilitating the dissemination of misinformation, and undermining higher education - all of which demand careful attention. To address these issues, we propose solutions and feasible strategies centered on ten core dimensions: establishing policies and regulatory guidelines, enhancing AI literacy and application capabilities, developing and improving relevant technical tools, establishing human-AI collaboration models, reforming peer review procedures and academic evaluation systems, promoting international cooperation and standardization, increasing transparency and strengthening disclosure, reinforcing professional ethics education, and advancing artificial intelligence detection technologies. Overall, while LLMs undoubtedly pose challenges for maintaining academic integrity, their potential for positive impact remains promising. It is anticipated that with technological advancement and improved ethical standards, LLMs will ultimately preserve and strengthen academic integrity.

36Open AI Chat Fabricated Anti–Electroconvulsive Therapy Statements and ReferencesOpenAlex

Conrad M. Swartz
Department of Psychiatry, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL. Received for publication May 12, 2023; accepted May 15, 2023. Reprints: Conrad M. Swartz, PhD, MD, 12911 NW 25th Ct, Vancouver, WA 98685-2036 (e-mail: [email protected]). The author is an officer of Somatics LLC, a manufacturer of electroconvulsive therapy devices and supplies.

37ChatGPT Utility in Healthcare Education, Research, and Practice: Systematic Review on the Promising Perspectives and Valid ConcernsOpenAlex

Malik Sallam
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI)-based conversational large language model (LLM). The potential applications of LLMs in health care education, research, and practice could be promising if the associated valid concerns are proactively examined and addressed. The current systematic review aimed to investigate the utility of ChatGPT in health care education, research, and practice and to highlight its potential limitations. Using the PRIMSA guidelines, a systematic search was conducted to retrieve English records in PubMed/MEDLINE and Google Scholar (published research or preprints) that examined ChatGPT in the context of health care education, research, or practice. A total of 60 records were eligible for inclusion. Benefits of ChatGPT were cited in 51/60 (85.0%) records and included: (1) improved scientific writing and enhancing research equity and versatility; (2) utility in health care research (efficient analysis of datasets, code generation, literature reviews, saving time to focus on experimental design, and drug discovery and development); (3) benefits in health care practice (streamlining the workflow, cost saving, documentation, personalized medicine, and improved health literacy); and (4) benefits in health care education including improved personalized learning and the focus on critical thinking and problem-based learning. Concerns regarding ChatGPT use were stated in 58/60 (96.7%) records including ethical, copyright, transparency, and legal issues, the risk of bias, plagiarism, lack of originality, inaccurate content with risk of hallucination, limited knowledge, incorrect citations, cybersecurity issues, and risk of infodemics. The promising applications of ChatGPT can induce paradigm shifts in health care education, research, and practice. However, the embrace of this AI chatbot should be conducted with extreme caution considering its potential limitations. As it currently stands, ChatGPT does not qualify to be listed as an author in scientific articles unless the ICMJE/COPE guidelines are revised or amended. An initiative involving all stakeholders in health care education, research, and practice is urgently needed. This will help to set a code of ethics to guide the responsible use of ChatGPT among other LLMs in health care and academia.

38Artificial intelligence-assisted academic writing: recommendations for ethical useOpenAlex

Adam Cheng, Aaron W. Calhoun, Gabriel Reedy
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools have been selectively adopted across the academic community to help researchers complete tasks in a more efficient manner. The widespread release of the Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) platform in 2022 has made these tools more accessible to scholars around the world. Despite their tremendous potential, studies have uncovered that large language model (LLM)-based generative AI tools have issues with plagiarism, AI hallucinations, and inaccurate or fabricated references. This raises legitimate concern about the utility, accuracy, and integrity of AI when used to write academic manuscripts. Currently, there is little clear guidance for healthcare simulation scholars outlining the ways that generative AI could be used to legitimately support the production of academic literature. In this paper, we discuss how widely available, LLM-powered generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) can help in the academic writing process. We first explore how academic publishers are positioning the use of generative AI tools and then describe potential issues with using these tools in the academic writing process. Finally, we discuss three categories of specific ways generative AI tools can be used in an ethically sound manner and offer four key principles that can help guide researchers to produce high-quality research outputs with the highest of academic integrity.

39Navigating the Landscape of Personalized Medicine: The Relevance of ChatGPT, BingChat, and Bard AI in Nephrology Literature SearchesOpenAlex

Noppawit Aiumtrakul, Charat Thongprayoon, Supawadee Suppadungsuk, et al.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Literature reviews are foundational to understanding medical evidence. With AI tools like ChatGPT, Bing Chat and Bard AI emerging as potential aids in this domain, this study aimed to individually assess their citation accuracy within Nephrology, comparing their performance in providing precise. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We generated the prompt to solicit 20 references in Vancouver style in each 12 Nephrology topics, using ChatGPT, Bing Chat and Bard. We verified the existence and accuracy of the provided references using PubMed, Google Scholar, and Web of Science. We categorized the validity of the references from the AI chatbot into (1) incomplete, (2) fabricated, (3) inaccurate, and (4) accurate. RESULTS: A total of 199 (83%), 158 (66%) and 112 (47%) unique references were provided from ChatGPT, Bing Chat and Bard, respectively. ChatGPT provided 76 (38%) accurate, 82 (41%) inaccurate, 32 (16%) fabricated and 9 (5%) incomplete references. Bing Chat provided 47 (30%) accurate, 77 (49%) inaccurate, 21 (13%) fabricated and 13 (8%) incomplete references. In contrast, Bard provided 3 (3%) accurate, 26 (23%) inaccurate, 71 (63%) fabricated and 12 (11%) incomplete references. The most common error type across platforms was incorrect DOIs. CONCLUSIONS: In the field of medicine, the necessity for faultless adherence to research integrity is highlighted, asserting that even small errors cannot be tolerated. The outcomes of this investigation draw attention to inconsistent citation accuracy across the different AI tools evaluated. Despite some promising results, the discrepancies identified call for a cautious and rigorous vetting of AI-sourced references in medicine. Such chatbots, before becoming standard tools, need substantial refinements to assure unwavering precision in their outputs.

40Artificial Intelligence Can Generate Fraudulent but Authentic-Looking Scientific Medical Articles: Pandora’s Box Has Been OpenedOpenAlex

Martin Májovský, Martin Černý, Matěj Kasal, et al.
BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced substantially in recent years, transforming many industries and improving the way people live and work. In scientific research, AI can enhance the quality and efficiency of data analysis and publication. However, AI has also opened up the possibility of generating high-quality fraudulent papers that are difficult to detect, raising important questions about the integrity of scientific research and the trustworthiness of published papers. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate the capabilities of current AI language models in generating high-quality fraudulent medical articles. We hypothesized that modern AI models can create highly convincing fraudulent papers that can easily deceive readers and even experienced researchers. METHODS: This proof-of-concept study used ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) powered by the GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3) language model to generate a fraudulent scientific article related to neurosurgery. GPT-3 is a large language model developed by OpenAI that uses deep learning algorithms to generate human-like text in response to prompts given by users. The model was trained on a massive corpus of text from the internet and is capable of generating high-quality text in a variety of languages and on various topics. The authors posed questions and prompts to the model and refined them iteratively as the model generated the responses. The goal was to create a completely fabricated article including the abstract, introduction, material and methods, discussion, references, charts, etc. Once the article was generated, it was reviewed for accuracy and coherence by experts in the fields of neurosurgery, psychiatry, and statistics and compared to existing similar articles. RESULTS: The study found that the AI language model can create a highly convincing fraudulent article that resembled a genuine scientific paper in terms of word usage, sentence structure, and overall composition. The AI-generated article included standard sections such as introduction, material and methods, results, and discussion, as well a data sheet. It consisted of 1992 words and 17 citations, and the whole process of article creation took approximately 1 hour without any special training of the human user. However, there were some concerns and specific mistakes identified in the generated article, specifically in the references. CONCLUSIONS: The study demonstrates the potential of current AI language models to generate completely fabricated scientific articles. Although the papers look sophisticated and seemingly flawless, expert readers may identify semantic inaccuracies and errors upon closer inspection. We highlight the need for increased vigilance and better detection methods to combat the potential misuse of AI in scientific research. At the same time, it is important to recognize the potential benefits of using AI language models in genuine scientific writing and research, such as manuscript preparation and language editing.

41Managing artificial intelligenceOpenAlex

Paul R. Krausman
By the time you finish reading this editorial about artificial intelligence (AI), it will be outdated; the AI field is growing beyond the imagination of many. One cannot even look at the news without finding something about AI: duplication of voices (even John Lennon's years after his death), use of AI in art and music creation, facial recognition, and others. This new field is readily used in the management of big data in many arenas but is filled with risks and uncertainty (Botes 2023). If the world population declines in number (scientificamerican.com/article/population-decline-will-change-the-world-for-the-better/, accessed 19 Jun 2023), there will be even more demand for AI to replace needed skills once provided by humans. The last part of the sentence is important because AI focuses on things typically done by humans. Artificial intelligence is a real game changer and needs to be managed wherever it is used, including the scientific process. The purpose of this editorial is to briefly indicate how The Journal of Wildlife Management (JWM) will incorporate AI in publishing. Artificial intelligence has been defined as an umbrella term for an array of algorithmic-based technologies, albeit with their own glitches, that solve complex tasks, which previously involved human thought, to whatever has not been done yet (DeWaard 2023). Artificial intelligence is living up to the promise of delivering value, influenced by advances in the availability of relevant data, computation, and algorithms from agriculture (Smith 2018) to zoology (Santangeli et al. 2020, Tuia et al. 2022) and everything in between. Artificial intelligence is also advancing wildlife management and conservation such as the use of drones in combination with AI to locate bird nests (Santangeli et al. 2020) and an array of other uses in wildlife and animal ecology as reviewed by Tuia et al. (2022). Artificial intelligence can also be used for nefarious activities such as Deepfake AI, a type of AI used to create convincing images, audio, and video hoaxes. To combat these uses, countries in The European Union are proposing laws (e.g., the AI Act) to put guardrails on the rapidly growing AI uses for policymakers and others. The United States is doing the same and other countries will not be far behind. Concerns over the use of AI is also growing elsewhere and universities are developing programs to train a new cadre of professionals to deal with the rapid changes and development in AI in all arenas. The rapid emergence and scope of AI generative tools, like chat generative pre-trained transformer (ChatGPT), Scite (an AI tool that provides quantitative and qualitative insight into how scientific publications cite each other), and DALL-E (an AI system named after S. Dali and Pixar's WALL-E movie) that can produce realistic images from text prompts, are at the forefront of many higher education conversations across the nation (e.g., University of Arizona) that are surveying faculty to identify salient topics surrounding emergent AI tools. And, there are a bunch of them. Scientists are surrounded with digital tools and platforms. As the professional academic social networks continue to grow, there have been changes in the publishing world almost as fast as the emergence of AI. For example, many journals are online with open access or are moving in that direction, social media is used to promote research, and with the advent of Covid, societies moved from in-person conferences to virtual conferences. All of these changes and others were assumed to operate with scientific integrity, which should continue with the emergence of AI. In publishing, as in other arenas, AI relates to the ability for machines to learn patterns to do things that have typically been done by humans. Artificial intelligence is the next major frontier in the process and dissemination of scientific knowledge and has arrived without much fanfare, but it is here to stay (Bachanan 2023). Artificial intelligence has been used for analysis and writing, among other parts of the scientific method by drawing on current knowledge and content available online with various combinations of accuracy, biases, and errors (Bachanan 2023). Like Bachanan (2023), I know that AI is here to stay but will have to wait to see how successful it is and how its uses will influence publishing. With the rapid growth of AI, we will not have to wait long. Artificial intelligence is touching all aspects of the publication world including the writing of articles (e.g., PaperPal, Writefull), article submission (e.g., Wiley's ReX, which automatically extracts data from manuscripts), tools to screen manuscripts on submission (e.g., Penelope, RipetaReview), support of peer review (e.g., SciScore) for method checking, and checking scientific images (Proofig, ImageTwin). Need more examples of the emerging role of AI in publishing? Check out Scite.ai to see how citations support arguments in manuscripts and the use of AI in marketing, creating proofs, copyediting, summarization (i.e., Scholarcy), using published material as data, reading (e.g., SemanticScholar summarizes manuscripts in 1–2 sentences), checking on similarities between submissions (e.g., TurnItIn, STM), determining if the scientific process is properly followed, finding referees, and detecting plagiarism (e.g., Content Authenticity Initiative; DeWaard 2023). These are just some of the uses of AI in publishing. There are also pitfalls that need to be addressed including scientific fraud and the potential legal risks for policies and decisions made with AI. One of the greatest challenges in using AI tools in the scientific process is to ensure the truth and validity of results from experiments. If truth is not grounded in scientific evidence or presented with sufficient qualifications, the scientific method would be violated. Artificial intelligence tools are built on probabilistic models that do not have rigorous closed-form mathematical solutions and therefore cannot be independently validated. Further, the algorithms are typically designed and trained to optimize a problem (i.e., to get the highest score possible on a certain task). As such, GenerativeAI models (e.g., ChatGPT) could fabricate scientific references in generating scientific papers to support a conclusion. The obvious danger is that if these references get past reviewers and accepted into the body of scientific literature, they could be referenced by scores of future authors to support a similar conclusion. Yet, at the core, the reference and its corresponding confusion may have never existed in the real world. Imagine how this could negatively influence the scientific process and its effects on the world and humanity. Similar errors could also creep into conclusions when AI is used to detect the number of animals in satellite imagery. Artificial intelligence could be also used to generate purely synthetic imagery of events that never occurred to promote some cause by actors who want to influence the scientific process. For example, what if an endangered species that never existed in an area was shown to exist in the middle of a development project in a peer-reviewed scientific study? Also, how does one address a machine or hold a program responsible for faulty information? And, by combining data from various places and individuals into a single data set, how is diversity of thought maintained? Authors are responsible for the ethical treatment of animals and their data, and must be aware of all aspects of how their data are collected and used. These and other issues must be addressed as AI is incorporated in publishing activities. Thus, the Editor-in-Chief and staff of JWM must embrace the responsibility of managing AI in our publications to maintain research integrity and ensure that AI does not replace the expertise and critical thinking of humans. To foster this idea, JWM staff follows Wiley's guidelines in dealing with AI: “Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) tools—such as ChatGPT and others based on large language models (LLMs)—cannot be considered capable of initiating an original piece of research without direction by human authors. They also cannot be accountable for a published work or for research design, which is a generally held requirement of authorship …, nor do they have legal standing or the ability to hold or assign copyright. Therefore—in accordance with COPE's position statement on AI tools—these tools cannot fulfill the role of, nor be listed as, an author of an article. If an author has used this kind of tool to develop any portion of a manuscript, its use must be described, transparently and in detail, in the Methods or Acknowledgements section. The author is fully responsible for the accuracy of any information provided by the tool and for correctly referencing any supporting work on which that information depends. Tools that are used to improve spelling, grammar, and general editing are not included in the scope of these guidelines. The final decision about whether use of an AIGC tool is appropriate or permissible in the circumstances of a submitted manuscript or a published article lies with the journal's editor or other party responsible for the publication's editorial policy.” (https://authorservices.wiley.com/ethics-guidelines/index.html#5, accessed 14 Jun 2023). I will be incorporating similar language in updated publication guidelines to explain how AI-generated material should be treated in JWM. The bottom line is that AI cannot be an author, any use of AI must be acknowledged (except for tools used to improve spelling, grammar, and general editing), and author(s) are responsible for all information in their manuscripts including data generated by AI. As AI develops and is used more in the scientific method and publication process, the policies we follow will also evolve to maintain the foundation of human thought, ethics, and the scientific method in published work. The Wildlife Society Code of Ethics states that members should understand “…human society's proper relationship with natural resources, and in particular for determining the role in wildlife in satisfying human needs and addressing the management of wildlife-related impacts” (https://wildlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Code-of-Ethics-May-2017.pdf, accessed 28 Jun 2023). We should all keep abreast of technological advances, including AI, and understand the roles they play in managing our wildlife resources. Keep on publishing but keep AI off the author list. This editorial was improved with reviews from J. A. Bissonette, A. S. Cox, E. H. Merrill, K. A. Norris, and P. M. Wegner. Many thanks.

42Ethics and artificial intelligence.PubMed

L Inglada Galiana, L Corral Gudino, P Miramontes González
Rev Clin Esp (Barc). 2024 Mar;224(3):178-186. doi: 10.1016/j.rceng.2024.02.003. Epub 2024 Feb 12.
The relationship between ethics and artificial intelligence in medicine is a crucial and complex topic that falls within its broader context. Ethics in medical artificial intelligence (AI) involves ensuring that technologies are safe, fair, and respect patient privacy. This includes concerns about the accuracy of diagnoses provided by artificial intelligence, fairness in patient treatment, and protection of personal health data. Advances in artificial intelligence can significantly improve healthcare, from more accurate diagnoses to personalized treatments. However, it is essential that developments in medical artificial intelligence are carried out with strong ethical consideration, involving healthcare professionals, artificial intelligence experts, patients, and ethics specialists to guide and oversee their implementation. Finally, transparency in artificial intelligence algorithms and ongoing training for medical professionals are fundamental.

43Generative artificial intelligence and ethical considerations in health care: a scoping review and ethics checklist.PubMed

Yilin Ning, Salinelat Teixayavong, Yuqing Shang, et al.
Lancet Digit Health. 2024 Nov;6(11):e848-e856. doi: 10.1016/S2589-7500(24)00143-2. Epub 2024 Sep 17.
The widespread use of Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (known as ChatGPT) and other emerging technology that is powered by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has drawn attention to the potential ethical issues they can cause, especially in high-stakes applications such as health care, but ethical discussions have not yet been translated into operationalisable solutions. Furthermore, ongoing ethical discussions often neglect other types of GenAI that have been used to synthesise data (eg, images) for research and practical purposes, which resolve some ethical issues and expose others. We did a scoping review of the ethical discussions on GenAI in health care to comprehensively analyse gaps in the research. To reduce the gaps, we have developed a checklist for comprehensive assessment and evaluation of ethical discussions in GenAI research. The checklist can be integrated into peer review and publication systems to enhance GenAI research and might be useful for ethics-related disclosures for GenAI-powered products and health-care applications of such products and beyond.

44Ethical considerations for artificial intelligence in dermatology: a scoping review.PubMed

Emily R Gordon, Megan H Trager, Despina Kontos, et al.
Br J Dermatol. 2024 May 17;190(6):789-797. doi: 10.1093/bjd/ljae040.
The field of dermatology is experiencing the rapid deployment of artificial intelligence (AI), from mobile applications (apps) for skin cancer detection to large language models like ChatGPT that can answer generalist or specialist questions about skin diagnoses. With these new applications, ethical concerns have emerged. In this scoping review, we aimed to identify the applications of AI to the field of dermatology and to understand their ethical implications. We used a multifaceted search approach, searching PubMed, MEDLINE, Cochrane Library and Google Scholar for primary literature, following the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews guidance. Our advanced query included terms related to dermatology, AI and ethical considerations. Our search yielded 202 papers. After initial screening, 68 studies were included. Thirty-two were related to clinical image analysis and raised ethical concerns for misdiagnosis, data security, privacy violations and replacement of dermatologist jobs. Seventeen discussed limited skin of colour representation in datasets leading to potential misdiagnosis in the general population. Nine articles about teledermatology raised ethical concerns, including the exacerbation of health disparities, lack of standardized regulations, informed consent for AI use and privacy challenges. Seven addressed inaccuracies in the responses of large language models. Seven examined attitudes toward and trust in AI, with most patients requesting supplemental assessment by a physician to ensure reliability and accountability. Benefits of AI integration into clinical practice include increased patient access, improved clinical decision-making, efficiency and many others. However, safeguards must be put in place to ensure the ethical application of AI.

45ChatGPT in medicine: an overview of its applications, advantages, limitations, future prospects, and ethical considerationsOpenAlex

Tirth Dave, Sai Anirudh Athaluri, Satyam Singh
This paper presents an analysis of the advantages, limitations, ethical considerations, future prospects, and practical applications of ChatGPT and artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare and medical domains. ChatGPT is an advanced language model that uses deep learning techniques to produce human-like responses to natural language inputs. It is part of the family of generative pre-training transformer (GPT) models developed by OpenAI and is currently one of the largest publicly available language models. ChatGPT is capable of capturing the nuances and intricacies of human language, allowing it to generate appropriate and contextually relevant responses across a broad spectrum of prompts. The potential applications of ChatGPT in the medical field range from identifying potential research topics to assisting professionals in clinical and laboratory diagnosis. Additionally, it can be used to help medical students, doctors, nurses, and all members of the healthcare fraternity to know about updates and new developments in their respective fields. The development of virtual assistants to aid patients in managing their health is another important application of ChatGPT in medicine. Despite its potential applications, the use of ChatGPT and other AI tools in medical writing also poses ethical and legal concerns. These include possible infringement of copyright laws, medico-legal complications, and the need for transparency in AI-generated content. In conclusion, ChatGPT has several potential applications in the medical and healthcare fields. However, these applications come with several limitations and ethical considerations which are presented in detail along with future prospects in medicine and healthcare.

46Advancing AI in healthcare: A comprehensive review of best practices.PubMed

Sergei Polevikov
Clin Chim Acta. 2023 Aug 1;548:117519. doi: 10.1016/j.cca.2023.117519. Epub 2023 Aug 16.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are powerful tools shaping the healthcare sector. This review considers twelve key aspects of AI in clinical practice: 1) Ethical AI; 2) Explainable AI; 3) Health Equity and Bias in AI; 4) Sponsorship Bias; 5) Data Privacy; 6) Genomics and Privacy; 7) Insufficient Sample Size and Self-Serving Bias; 8) Bridging the Gap Between Training Datasets and Real-World Scenarios; 9) Open Source and Collaborative Development; 10) Dataset Bias and Synthetic Data; 11) Measurement Bias; 12) Reproducibility in AI Research. These categories represent both the challenges and opportunities of AI implementation in healthcare. While AI holds significant potential for improving patient care, it also presents risks and challenges, such as ensuring privacy, combating bias, and maintaining transparency and ethics. The review underscores the necessity of developing comprehensive best practices for healthcare organizations and fostering a diverse dialogue involving data scientists, clinicians, patient advocates, ethicists, economists, and policymakers. We are at the precipice of significant transformation in healthcare powered by AI. By continuing to reassess and refine our approach, we can ensure that AI is implemented responsibly and ethically, maximizing its benefit to patient care and public health.

47AI: from rational agents to socially responsible agentsOpenAlex

Antonio Vetrò, Antonio Dante Maria Santangelo, Elena Beretta, et al.
Purpose This paper aims to analyze the limitations of the mainstream definition of artificial intelligence (AI) as a rational agent, which currently drives the development of most AI systems. The authors advocate the need of a wider range of driving ethical principles for designing more socially responsible AI agents. Design/methodology/approach The authors follow an experience-based line of reasoning by argument to identify the limitations of the mainstream definition of AI, which is based on the concept of rational agents that select, among their designed actions, those which produce the maximum expected utility in the environment in which they operate. The problem of biases in the data used by AI is taken as example, and a small proof of concept with real datasets is provided. Findings The authors observe that biases measurements on the datasets are sufficient to demonstrate potential risks of discriminations when using those data in AI rational agents. Starting from this example, the authors discuss other open issues connected to AI rational agents and provide a few general ethical principles derived from the White Paper AI at the service of the citizen, recently published by Agid, the agency of the Italian Government which designs and monitors the evolution of the IT systems of the Public Administration. Originality/value The paper contributes to the scientific debate on the governance and the ethics of AI with a critical analysis of the mainstream definition of AI.

48Academic Integrity considerations of AI Large Language Models in the post-pandemic era: ChatGPT and beyondOpenAlex

Mike Perkins
This paper explores the academic integrity considerations of students’ use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools using Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT in formal assessments. We examine the evolution of these tools, and highlight the potential ways that LLMs can support in the education of students in digital writing and beyond, including the teaching of writing and composition, the possibilities of co-creation between humans and AI, supporting EFL learners, and improving Automated Writing Evaluations (AWE). We describe and demonstrate the potential that these tools have in creating original, coherent text that can avoid detection by existing technological methods of detection and trained academic staff alike, demonstrating a major academic integrity concern related to the use of these tools by students. Analysing the various issues related to academic integrity that LLMs raise for both Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and students, we conclude that it is not the student use of any AI tools that defines whether plagiarism or a breach of academic integrity has occurred, but whether any use is made clear by the student. Deciding whether any particular use of LLMs by students can be defined as academic misconduct is determined by the academic integrity policies of any given HEI, which must be updated to consider how these tools will be used in future educational environments.

49Practical Considerations and Ethical Implications of Using Artificial Intelligence in Writing Scientific ManuscriptsOpenAlex

Muhammad Nadeem Yousaf
The growing accessibility and sophistication of artificial intelligence (AI) tools have transformed many areas of research, including scientific writing. AI tools, such as natural language processing models and machine learning-based writing assistants, are increasingly used to help draft, edit, and refine scientific manuscripts. However, the use of AI in the writing process introduces both legal and ethical challenges. Various guidelines and policies have emerged, particularly from academic publishers, aimed at ensuring transparency and maintaining the integrity of scientific work. This editorial aimed to provide guidance for researchers on the ethical and practical considerations regarding the use of AI in writing scientific manuscripts, focusing on institutional policies, authorship accountability, intellectual property concerns, plagiarism issues, and image integrity. INSTITUTIONAL AND JOURNAL POLICIES: TRANSPARENCY AND GUIDELINES As AI tools become more prevalent in scientific writing, academic institutions and journals are establishing clear guidelines regarding their use. The majority of well-known publishers provide guidance to authors, readers, reviewers, and editors concerning the role of AI-assisted technologies in the writing process, but industrywide standards have not yet been fully refined.1 The recently developed framework by American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) and Wolters Kluwer, the publisher of ACG journals emphasizes transparency and accountability, highlighting that although AI can assist in improving the readability and language of a manuscript, it should not replace the core tasks of authorship, such as generating scientific insights or drawing conclusions.2 ACG also requires authors to disclose the use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies during the writing process. This disclosure fosters trust and ensures compliance with the terms of use of the AI tools. The goal is to provide clarity to readers, reviewers, and editors, helping them understand where and how AI was applied in manuscript preparation. Failure to disclose AI use can lead to ethical breaches, retractions, and potential damage to the professional reputations of both the researcher and the journal. The policy only covers the creation of new content and expressly forbids using AI on previously published material, preventing concerns around self-plagiarism or unauthorized content modification. AUTHORSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY: THE ROLE OF HUMAN OVERSIGHT The rise of AI in scientific writing raises fundamental questions about authorship and responsibility. The ACG's authors instructions emphasize that authorship cannot be attributed to AI, as AI cannot take responsibility for the accuracy or integrity of scientific work. Authorship implies a set of ethical and intellectual responsibilities that only human researchers can fulfill. Every listed author must be accountable for the content of the manuscript, and AI cannot be assigned such responsibilities. Moreover, although AI can assist in writing, it cannot generate the intellectual contributions to scientific research. Scientific manuscripts must be the product of human insight and critical thinking. ACG's policy highlights the need for human oversight in the application of AI technologies, emphasizing that all AI-generated content should be thoroughly reviewed and edited by the authors to ensure accuracy, completeness, and lack of bias. The authors are ultimately responsible for ensuring that their work adheres to the highest standards of scientific integrity. This policy aligns with broader academic norms, such as the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors criteria for authorship, which require authors to have made significant intellectual contributions to the research and to be accountable for the final work. Failure to ensure human oversight and control can lead to inaccurate or misleading scientific conclusions, jeopardizing the validity of the research. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND OWNERSHIP OF AI-GENERATED CONTENT The use of AI in scientific writing introduces important questions about intellectual property (IP) ownership. Scientific manuscripts often contain novel ideas and discoveries, and researchers must be careful about the terms and conditions associated with the AI tools they use. Some AI platforms, such as OpenAI's Chat-GPT models, explicitly state that users retain ownership of the content generated through the tool. However, other platforms may have different terms, leading to potential conflicts over content ownership. ACG's policy ensures that authors remain responsible for the originality of their work, cautioning against the use of AI tools in ways that might lead to copyright violations or IP disputes. Because AI models are trained on vast data sets that may include copyrighted material, authors must be vigilant in ensuring that the AI-generated text does not unintentionally replicate existing works without proper attribution. This highlights the importance of understanding the terms of service of the AI platform being used and adhering to proper citation practices. PLAGIARISM AND ETHICAL CONCERNS Plagiarism is a serious ethical violation in academia, and the use of AI tools presents new challenges in this area. AI systems generate text based on large data sets, and although they aim to produce original content, there is always the risk of unintentional plagiarism if the AI-generated text closely resembles existing works.3 Academic journals including all of ACG's journals use plagiarism detection software to monitor submissions, and any AI-generated content that overlaps significantly with previously published works could be flagged as plagiarism. To address this, the authors should practice transparency and proper attribution when AI tools are used. The authors must disclose AI use to avoid accusations of misconduct and to ensure the originality of their work. In addition, because AI can generate authoritative-sounding but incorrect or biased information, researchers must carefully review the content produced by these tools, ensuring that it meets academic standards. THE GENERATION OF FABRICATED CITATIONS AND REFERENCES USING AI-ASSISTED TOOLS One of the most pressing concerns in AI-assisted academic writing is the potential for generating fake citations and references4,5. This problem arises when AI tools produce fictitious or incorrect references that appear authentic but do not correspond to real sources. These generated references often mimic legitimate academic citations, complete with plausible journal titles, author names, and publication dates. However, on closer inspection, the cited works may not exist, or the citation details may be inaccurate, leading to false academic claims. The generation of fake citations by AI tools severely undermines the integrity of the peer-reviewed scientific process. Scholarly research depends on verifiable sources and accurate references that allow readers and reviewers to trace the intellectual lineage of ideas and verify the reliability of the claims being made. When citations are fabricated, this essential foundation of research collapses, leading to a cascade of misinformation. For instance, if one published article contains fake references and is later cited by others, the spread of false information becomes harder to detect and control, potentially polluting the knowledge base of a given field. The dangers of AI-generating fake citations extend beyond simple inaccuracies. Because AI models rely on large-scale data sets to produce content, they may unintentionally fabricate references by amalgamating parts of real sources with incorrect or fictional details. This creates the appearance of a legitimate scholarly foundation, making it difficult for readers and reviewers to identify problematic citations without extensive fact-checking. Researchers using AI tools must remain vigilant and ensure that all citations are factually accurate and correspond to real, verifiable sources. The academic community operates on a system of mutual trust, and violations such as the intentional use of fake citations can cause irreparable harm to the credibility of individual researchers and the broader field. PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF AI TO STREAMLINE RESEARCH WHILE PRESERVING ETHICAL STANDARDS AI is transforming research, offering tools that assist with a variety of tasks, from systematic reviews to advanced data analysis.6 These AI tools have the potential to streamline many stages of the systematic review process, including developing and refining search strategies, screening titles and abstracts based on inclusion or exclusion criteria, extracting essential data from studies, and summarizing findings.6 AI can also efficiently scan vast databases to identify relevant articles and automatically organize metadata from diverse sources. Machine learning algorithms extend these capabilities by uncovering hidden patterns, trends, and correlations in complex datasets, enabling predictive analytics and intuitive visualizations that enrich research insights. However, these tools should not be seen as replacements for human expertise and judgment. Quality and ethical risks, such as biases in training data or inaccuracies in results, remain critical concerns. Researchers must view AI as a supplementary tool that optimizes processes while preserving the importance of critical quality checks, human evaluation, and meaningful intellectual contributions. Human oversight remains indispensable for interpreting findings, evaluating ethical implications, and ensuring the overall integrity of scientific reports. By balancing AI's efficiency with the irreplaceable depth of human analysis, researchers can leverage these technologies to enhance workflows, maintain ethical rigor, and drive meaningful scientific progress. The integration of AI tools into the writing of scientific manuscripts presents both practical benefits and ethical challenges. Although AI can enhance readability and streamline the drafting process, it cannot replace the essential human contributions that define authorship, intellectual insight, and scientific integrity. Clear institutional and publisher policies should emphasize the need for transparency, accountability, and human oversight in the use of AI tools. The generation of fabricated citations and references, IP concerns, and risks related to image integrity highlight the ethical complexities posed by AI. To safeguard the credibility and trustworthiness of academic research, it is imperative that researchers carefully manage AI usage, ensure proper attribution, and maintain the originality of their work. As AI technology evolves, ongoing vigilance, refined policies, and adherence to ethical standards will be crucial in maintaining the integrity of scientific literature. DISCLOSURES Author contributions: MN Yousaf wrote and edited the manuscript and is the article guarantor. Acknowledgments: Neen LeMaster, Assistant Managing Editor of ACG Scholarly Publications. Neen helped in refining ACG policy in the editorial from managing standpoint. Financial disclosure: None to report. Informed consent was obtained for this case report.

50Dignity of science and the use of ChatGPT as a co-authorOpenAlex

Manuel Scimeca, Rita Bonfiglio
‘Science is a reflection of human dignity. It represents the pursuit of truth, the exploration of the nature of the world, and the comprehension of life itself. Science is the beacon that leads us towards a brighter future,’ stated Albert Einstein in the 20th century. Despite this, the question of how science can enhance human life while preserving the human dignity remains a topic of discussion. There can be no denying that technological advancements have greatly improved life on earth, with space exploration, personalized medicine, new drugs, and computing having a significant impact on the lives of people. For example, messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines have played a crucial role in fighting the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.1Tregoning J.S. Flight K.E. Higham S.L. Wang Z. Pierce B.F. Progress of the COVID-19 vaccine effort: viruses, vaccines and variants versus efficacy, effectiveness and escape.Nat Rev Immunol. 2021; 21: 626-636Crossref PubMed Scopus (494) Google Scholar,2Fernandes Q. Inchakalody V.P. Merhi M. et al.Emerging COVID-19 variants and their impact on SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis, therapeutics and vaccines.Ann Med. 2022; 54: 524-540Crossref PubMed Scopus (87) Google Scholar Similarly, artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize scientific knowledge and improve the quality of human life, much like the major scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century, including the discovery of DNA, the moon landing, the Theory of Relativity, and quantum mechanics. AI is likely to have a major impact on health care, sustainability, climate change, and environmental issues. Ideally, and through the use of sophisticated AI-based devices, cities may become less congested, less polluted, and generally more livable, and health care systems may also improve. Thus it is the responsibility of the scientific community to invest significant human and economic resources into the development of AI science. Nevertheless, the advancement of AI in science poses significant ethical dilemmas.3Kargl M. Plass M. Müller H. A literature review on ethics for AI in biomedical research and biobanking.Yearb Med Inform. 2022; 31: 152-160Crossref Scopus (2) Google Scholar, 4Schuklenk U. On the ethics of AI ethics.Bioethics. 2020; 34: 146-147Crossref Scopus (2) Google Scholar, 5Kazim E. Koshiyama A.S. A high-level overview of AI ethics.Patterns (N Y). 2021; 2100314Google Scholar Some of these include questions about accountability for AI’s errors, the impact of machines on human interactions, and how to address unintended consequences of AI. There is an urgent need for a ‘behavioral code’ to ensure that AI is used in a humane manner. Therefore scientists, doctors, and philosophers are developing principles of ‘algo-ethics’, which guide the ethical use of AI based on the principles of transparency, inclusion, responsibility, impartiality, reliability, security, and privacy, so that AI remains in service of people. Technology often advances faster than the scientific community’s ability to evaluate it. Before determining which applications of AI bring benefits and which pose risks, it is essential to understand the potential and challenges of new technologies. This creates a ‘gray zone’, in which researchers face ethical challenges without adequate training or support. In recent days, there has been a noteworthy discussion about the utilization of ChatGPT and other AI tools as coauthors in scientific papers.6Zhavoronkov A. ChatGPT Generative Pre-trained TransformerRapamycin in the context of Pascal’s Wager: generative pre-trained transformer perspective.Oncoscience. 2022; 9: 82-84Crossref PubMed Google Scholar, 7Curtis N. ChatGPT To ChatGPT or not to ChatGPT? The impact of artificial intelligence on academic publishing.Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2023; 42: 275Crossref Scopus (13) Google Scholar, 8King M.R. chatGPT A conversation on artificial intelligence, chatbots, and plagiarism in higher education.Cell Mol Bioeng. 2023; 16: 1-2Crossref Scopus (44) Google Scholar ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a large language model developed by OpenAI (San Francisco, CA). It is built on the GPT-3 language model family and has been fine-tuned using both supervised and reinforcement learning methods.9The Lancet Digital Health. ChatGPT: friend or foe? Lancet Digit Health. 2023:S2589-7500(23)00023-7.Google Scholar In scientific research, it can be considered a useful tool for producing well-written, sometimes comically absurd, mini essays in response to requests. It can also be used for composing short computer programs, conducting literature research, analyzing data for statistical purposes, and detecting plagiarism and mistakes in scientific texts. Some authors have expressed their opposition to the use of ChatGPT or similar AI tools as coauthors of scientific publications due to their inability to meet editorial standards.10Thorp H.H. ChatGPT is fun, but not an author.Science. 2023; 379: 313Crossref PubMed Scopus (130) Google Scholar,11Stokel-Walker C. ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove.Nature. 2023; 613: 620-621Crossref PubMed Scopus (112) Google Scholar Nonsentient devices such as ChatGPT cannot take responsibility for the content and integrity of scientific papers or give consent to terms of use and distribution rights. Here, we want to emphasize the potential negative consequences of using ChatGPT as an author on both the scientific community and humanity as a whole. Concerning the scientific community, the use of ChatGPT as a coauthor in a scientific publication raises serious concerns. Equating the dignity of researchers with that of a machine is unacceptable. According to the United Nations (UN), human dignity is defined as the intrinsic and inalienable value of every person, and is recognized as a universal and inalienable right that must be respected and protected by all societies and institutions. However, it is clear that machines, such as ChatGPT, cannot possess dignity. By acknowledging ChatGPT as a coauthor, we would be denying authors their dignity as humans and scientists. Thus, by losing our dignity, will we have the strength to defend the good? Will it make sense to promulgate what is right and stigmatize what is wrong? Will we have the authority to defend science from conspiracists and fake news? These three questions prompt us to examine the potential impact of using ChatGPT as a coauthor on human beings. It would be important to assess how the public might react if they were to learn that an AI device was one of the authors of a scientific discovery that impacts their lives. In the field of biomedical research, patients may ask the AI device for a diagnosis or treatment instead of a doctor, because both the physician and the AI device could have coauthored the same study. If this were the case, could we reject our nonsentient coauthor? This would be a challenge because we should explain an undeniable reality that we ourselves are denying, the superiority and complexity of human thought compared with that of machines. In our opinion, these and other considerations should alarm the scientific community. Researchers and publishers should promptly preclude the use of ChatGPT as an author for scientific publication, thus providing the necessary time to discuss about this issue. We have the responsibility to drive technological progress by both preserving the dignity of the science and pursuing the good of humanity. PS: We used ChatGPT to detect possible plagiarisms and mistakes. It is an exceptional tool, certainly not an author. None declared.

51Addressing student use of generative AI in schools and universities through academic integrity reportingOpenAlex

Steven A. Peterson
The aim of this theoretical article is to explore frameworks contributing to reasonable and applicable definitions of artificial intelligence (AI), human intelligence, and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), as well as propose a framework for an efficient, transparent, and scalable approach to assess and address inappropriate use of GenAI resources in an academic environment.The integration of artificial intelligence technologies in academic environments has transformed how students engage with learning materials, complete assignments, and demonstrate formative knowledge. The opportunities AI-enhanced resources offer for personalized learning and robust academic experiences are comingled with significant challenges related to appropriate student use. Although automated content generators can enhance productivity and understanding, they also raise complex questions about academic integrity and the role educators must play in shaping its ethical use. AI-powered tools provide students with grammar correction, citation management, language translation, research abstracts, and a wide-range of enhanced learning support when used appropriately (Dwivendi et al., 2021). These tools also assist non-native speaking students with accessibility to learning modalities throughout the world (Karakas, 2023). It is when these tools are used to circumvent academic effort that concerns quickly emerge. Large language models (LLMs) capable of generating human-quality text and creative content have blurred the lines of authorship and academic integrity. Students have unprecedented access to resources capable of completing assignments, writing essays, and solving complex problems with minimal personal effort. This raises strong opinion about the assessment of student learning (Luo, 2024), determination of plagiarism (Bittle et al., 2025), and efficacy of performance outcomes (Weng et al., 2024).Luo's critical policy analysis published in 2024 examined the institutional frameworks guiding the use of GenAI in assessment at twenty world-leading universities. Employing Bacchi's "What's the problem represented to be" (WPR) methodology, the research sought to critically analyze how these institutions articulate the challenges posed by GenAI within an evolving academic landscape.The core critique identified a dominant, nearly universal policy paradigm that frames GenAI as a potential threat to academic integrity and the intellectual originality of student submissions. By designating these resources as a form of external assistance separate from the student's contribution, this prevailing policy structure suggests a critical silence regarding the increasingly distributed and collaborative nature of modern, technology-mediated knowledge production (Luo, 2024). This research suggests a redefinition of "originality" to effectively accommodate and integrate human-AI collaborative endeavors.The potential effects of these prevailing integrity-focused policies are significant: they risk stigmatizing students utilizing GenAI resources for legitimate purposes and may transform faculty into punitive "gatekeepers" whose focus is policing misconduct rather than empowering robust student learning experiences (Luo, 2024). Notwithstanding its theoretical utility, Luo's study exhibits key research gaps. A primary limitation is the absence of empirical data concerning the lived effects of the policies, specifically lacking both student perspectives on their resultant impact and real-world faculty implementation data across varied disciplines. This reliance on a limited, purposed sample of elite universities undermines the generalizability of findings, neglecting distinct policy challenges faced by diverse institutional types, such as community colleges, proprietary and non-profit institutions. Finally, a key absence is the inclusion of alternative policy models, specifically in-depth case studies on institutions that have successfully moved beyond the punitive model to implement progressive, integrated GenAI policies.A systematic literature review was conducted to effectively assess how GenAI technologies influence the demonstration of formative knowledge, balancing both educational benefits and associated risks to academic honesty (Bittle et al., 2025). This comprehensive analysis encompassed 41 studies gathered from key databases, including the IEEE Xplore and JSTOR.Core findings suggest a profound impact of GenAI resources in higher education environments. The opportunities AI-enhanced resources offer for customized learning and robust educational engagement are comingled with significant challenges related to appropriate student use. Large language models capable of generating human-quality assignments and creative content have blurred the lines of authorship, enabling the evasion of conventional plagiarism tools and raising complex questions about academic integrity. This review suggests that immediate actions are required to effectively manage GenAI's influence. This primarily involves enhancing digital literacy among both students and faculty, and developing more robust detection tools that can assess and address AI-generated content. 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52On the creativity of large language modelsOpenAlex

Giorgio Franceschelli, Mirco Musolesi
Abstract Large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing several areas of Artificial Intelligence. One of the most remarkable applications is creative writing, e.g., poetry or storytelling: the generated outputs are often of astonishing quality. However, a natural question arises: can LLMs be really considered creative? In this article, we first analyze the development of LLMs under the lens of creativity theories, investigating the key open questions and challenges. In particular, we focus our discussion on the dimensions of value, novelty, and surprise as proposed by Margaret Boden in her work. Then, we consider different classic perspectives, namely product, process, press, and person. We discuss a set of “easy” and “hard” problems in machine creativity, presenting them in relation to LLMs. Finally, we examine the societal impact of these technologies with a particular focus on the creative industries, analyzing the opportunities offered, the challenges arising from them, and the potential associated risks, from both legal and ethical points of view.

53The future (Industry 4.0) is closer than we think. Will it also be ethical?OpenAlex

Pavel Fobel, Aleksandra Kuzior
We live in an era when we are significantly confronted with new social trends which affect the living environment, sustainable life, migration processes, global social changes, and economic innovations, as well as new technologies and more efficient use of artificial intelligence. We perceive the future not only as a scientific and technological challenge, but also as an issue of ethical importance and potential ethical risks. Therefore the civilisation changes, such as the adaptation to the parameters of a new society under Industry 4.0, call for ethical caution and moral sensibility in order to reduce, or even eliminate, potential negative impacts on humans and their existential conditions. The use of robotics and artificial intelligence in various areas, such as in the field of law, education, construction of smart cities or public administration, gene technologies, housing, productivity, social services, industry, and the like also poses a new requirement. For example, the demand will grow for creative people, professionals having understanding for a human in a new environment, in everyday contact with artificial intelligence, new functioning of institutions, business transformation, and the entire social systems. They should be individuals able to response, in a creative manner, to specific situations and needs, new forms of self-realization. There will be a radical change in the area of personalisation, this including both the education and the personalised and individualised service, responses to individual requirements of a citizen, client, or consumer. Modern era was based on mass production and social revolutions. The social changes and shifts in values are mirrored by intellectual authorities, such as G. Lipovetsky who emphasises the necessity to adopt new ethical approach in relation to the new social paradigm. "Postmodern age is obsessed with information and self-expression" (Lipovetsky, 1998, p. 19). Individual ethics will gain its momentum, the ethics of other (third) type will be necessary, e.g. the ethics as presented by G. Lipovetsky: "Our era does not restore the rule of the "good old morality", it abandons it. In this sense, it is not possible to expect any changes of laws, any exploration of new moral values. Its ambition is to participate in solutions and changes, implement mechanisms of ethical prevalence, or the instruments of ethical supervision within social plans being prepared or already implemented.Its mission is to enrich the dialogue in the area of new trends with ethical questions, to extend the interdisciplinary discourse, to enter the dialogue within innovative projects and be an active player in such dialogues. Each change affects human and human’s integrity. Underestimation of professional opinions of ethical nature may generate an irreversible or dangerous situation which could put humans under threat. Solution of consequences without setting responsibilities, assessment of ethical risks may lead to serious social issues and delayed responses which would rather stem from searching of conscience.What is more, it needs to be emphasised that new technologies are the outcome of scientific production, implementation of science, and are associated with the activities of research teams. And this is the aspect that is pointed out by the representatives of the Technology Assessment concept1, the importance of applying ethical criteria to technology assessment. The significance and risks of contemporary science are also addressed by Ulrich Beck in his Risk Society. It is evident that the issue deserves wide interdisciplinary discourse across all areas aiming to overcome particularised approaches to understanding and solutions of dilemmas. In this interdisciplinary discourse, it is necessary to emphasise the ethical context and value and contextual parameters. Initiatives associated with the transformation to the new paradigm Industry 4.0 start emerging also in Slovakia. The initiative originated at the Ministry of Economy and was approved by the Slovak Government in October 2018. Action Plan was prepared in cooperation with the representatives of individual departments, industry, associations, and the academic circles. This national concept perceives the process in conjunction with other social components and stakeholders. National strategies and conceptions tend to underestimate the ethical aspect, not taking it as an important part of innovative approaches, mitigation of risks, or prevention. We hold the opinion that Industry 4.0 constitutes a fundamental turning point that deserves ethical appreciation and solutions. The peculiarities of this paradigm should also be explored within ethics and enter, in a constructive manner, the discourse in the area of science and research, both within professional socialisation and within the area of institutionalisation of ethical instruments in order to minimise, to a maximum possible extent, the ethical risks and potential negative consequences of new technologies and use of digital data in relation to customers and partners.