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ArticleAdvances in simulation (London, England)2025

Artificial intelligence-assisted academic writing: recommendations for ethical use.

Adam Cheng, Aaron Calhoun, Gabriel Reedy

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Article in Advances in simulation (London, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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28 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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3 authors.

Adam ChengDepartments of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Alberta Children's Hospital, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, 28 Oki Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, T3B 6A8, Canada. chenger@me.com.
Aaron CalhounUniversity of Louisville School of Medicine and Norton Children's Medical Group, Louisville, KY, USA.
Gabriel ReedyFaculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools have been selectively adopted across the academic community to help researchers complete tasks in a more efficient manner. The widespread release of the Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) platform in 2022 has made these tools more accessible to scholars around the world. Despite their tremendous potential, studies have uncovered that large language model (LLM)-based generative AI tools have issues with plagiarism, AI hallucinations, and inaccurate or fabricated references. This raises legitimate concern about the utility, accuracy, and integrity of AI when used to write academic manuscripts. Currently, there is little clear guidance for healthcare simulation scholars outlining the ways that generative AI could be used to legitimately support the production of academic literature. In this paper, we discuss how widely available, LLM-powered generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) can help in the academic writing process. We first explore how academic publishers are positioning the use of generative AI tools and then describe potential issues with using these tools in the academic writing process. Finally, we discuss three categories of specific ways generative AI tools can be used in an ethically sound manner and offer four key principles that can help guide researchers to produce high-quality research outputs with the highest of academic integrity.

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Academic writingArtificial intelligenceChatGPTEthicsLarge language models

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PMID40251634
PMCPMC12007126

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