Updated Guidance for Author Use of AI in Medical Publication

Annette Flanagin; Roy H. Perlis; Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

doi:10.1001/jama.2026.16613

August 10, 2026JAMA

Updated Guidance for Author Use of AI in Medical Publication

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To provide updated editorial and ethical guidance regarding the permissible use, transparent disclosure, and accountability of artificial intelligence tools in scholarly medical publishing.
Editorial review and policy synthesis by medical journal editors addressing generative artificial intelligence and large language models.
Formulation of standard reporting criteria, disclosure requirements, and authorship boundaries for scientific manuscript submissions.
Artificial intelligence technologies and large language models cannot be credited as authors because nonhuman software cannot take legal or ethical accountability for submitted work.
Authors must transparently disclose any use of generative artificial intelligence tools in the manuscript methods, formal acknowledgments, or submission disclosures.
Human authors remain solely responsible for the integrity, factual accuracy, and originality of all content, including prevention of fabricated references or plagiarism.

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Policy guidance outlines updated reporting standards for artificial intelligence in medical publishing, highlighting human accountability for scientific accuracy.

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