Equity in Scientific Publishing: Can Artificial Intelligence Transform the Peer Review Process?

摘要: Chat Generative Pre-Trained Trans-former (ChatGPT), a large language model developed by OpenAI, is gaining global recognition for its ability to read and perform writing tasks with human-like precision. Recently, this artificial intelligence (AI) tool has made important inroads into health care, helping streamline administrative tasks like writing referrals and previous authorizations, classifying skin conditions, and devising patient-specific care plans. Although ChatGPT has also been used as a research aid, largely underexplored are its potential applications in evaluating manuscripts for publication. Although there are inherent quality control concerns, using generative AI tools for peer review could rectify inequities in the research process and help create more inclusive scholarly discourse.Peer review, a cornerstone of academic research, is a labor-intensive endeavor. In 2020, reviewers spent 100 million hours, or …