Artificial intelligence (AI) can officially add medical writing to its list of skills included on its ever-growing resume.

“ChatGPT and the Future of Medical Writing” was published on Feb. 2 in Radiology. The article, submitted and edited by Som Biswas, MD, with the department of pediatric radiology at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Tennessee, highlights the benefits and inherent risks of utilizing AI in a medical publication setting, concluding that, overall, it could be “a powerful tool” used in the future of medical publishing—when used with caution, of course.

ChatGPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer) is a language AI model that can produce human-like text. Developed by OpenAI, the model was trained on a large dataset of text for the purpose of being able to produce its own similar text. It is often utilized in the field of natural language processing as a chatbot, but following the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, AI authorship quickly gained momentum in the field of medical publications, while also taking a lot of heat from skeptics.

Though it does not seem Biswas is a skeptic, he notes several considerations that need to be made when using the tool.