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When ChatGPT was released in November 2022, it prompted an ongoing national conversation about the role of generative AI across all sectors of intellectual labor. Within the academy, that conversation has focused primarily on generative AI’s impact on instruction, with relatively little attention being given to its role in scholarly research. The field of biomedical research in particular has provided some of the most promising use cases for generative AI, as well as being a site for potentially significant harm…

AI has driven important advances in biomedical research for some time, spurring drug discovery, improving medical imaging, and facilitating engagements with large datasets in emerging fields like precision medicine. However, recent advances, notably the advent of consumer-friendly generative AI tools, have increased the likelihood that AI-informed research and scholarly communication will be ubiquitous in the near future. Managing this transformation in ways that ensure high-quality, reproducible results and ethical, inclusive research practices is important across academic disciplines, but identifying current…