Ep113 - AI Use in Research

AI is everywhere in popular culture right now. Most of us are confronted with it daily and most of us are either excited or horrified. Is it helpful or harmful? If we are going to use it, how should we? What is the ethical and pragmatic use of AI in research?Drs Remle Crowe and Henry Wang join us to discuss what I think everyone would agree is a rapidly changing technology. Citations:1. Lee S, Davis J, Milne K, Shenvi C, Beattie LK, Wegman M, et al. Where Evidence‐Based Medicine Meets AI: Promise, Pitfalls, and Practice. AEM Educ Train. 2026 Jun 21;10(3):e70210. doi:10.1002/aet2.70210 PubMed PMID: 42338624; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC13284287.2. Milne WK, Fatovich D. The Potential for Artificial Intelligence to Augment Peer Review. Emerg Medicine Australasia. 2026 Apr;38(2):e70243. doi:10.1111/1742-6723.702433. The National Desk. ChatGPT Goes Viral for Choosing Global Destruction Over Using Racial Slur [Internet]. 2023 [cited 2026 Jul 12]. Available from: https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/chatgpt-goes-viral-for-choosing-global-destruction-over-using-racial-slur-openai-artificial-intelligence-chat-bot-chatbot-google4. O’Neil C. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. New York, NY: Crown Publishing Group; 2017.5. McGhee H. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. New York: One World; 2021.