The chat is out of the bag: The future of AI in clinical research

In recent years, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) has steadily increased across many industries, including clinical research. The November 2022 release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT – a large language model that generates human-like output text in response to text input—has generated unprecedented public interest in the capabilities and potential impact of AI. Although there has been robust discussion of the use of AI in medicine, the applications of AI in clinical research, and the attendant ethical issues they raise have been relatively under-explored. The October 10, 2023, meeting of the Bioethics Collaborative will aim to clarify the current and potential uses of AI in clinical research, identify salient ethical challenges and issues, and provoke deliberation on how best to approach the development of ethical frameworks that can guide the development and use of AI in clinical research.

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