Artificial Intelligence

a guide to artificial intelligence in medicine and health sciences education

Peer Review and AI

In July of 2023, the NIH clearly stated “Using AI in Peer Review is a Breach of Confidentiality

EASE's recommendations on AI in peer review:

"We strongly recommend specifying whether reviewers are allowed to use AI tools during peer review, and to consider distinguishing between the use of AI for language or style editing of the reviewer’s written comments versus AI creation of the review comments. Furthermore, journals should specify if and how they will use any tools that check if part(s) of the review were written by an AI, what are potential consequences of those findings, as well as what authors should do in cases when they suspect use of AI for those purposes. Any AI peer review policy should be highlighted in the review invitation emails and in the online submission platform."
 

Policies on AI in peer review:

Several journals, publishers, and funding agencies have prohibited the use of AI tools by peer reviewers: