AI Tools : Overview

• AMA - Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
  • This document outlines the AMA’s position on the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and AI tools in healthcare. AI tools for the purpose of this position statement include automated decision making (ADM) and application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in healthcare.
• RANZCR Position Statement on the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
  • The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists paper sets out principles and recommendations to guide the development of a robust regulatory framework for AI technology in medicine.
  • More RANZCR resources here. 
• Safer Care Victoria: Health service use of unregulated Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • This Advisory is issued in response to emergence of new generative AI programs such as ChatGPT and similar generative AI models. It outlines the interim position on safe use; no such application is listed on the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG).
• TGA Regulation of software based medical devices
  • AI with a medical purpose falls under TGA's software regulation provisions.

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• International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) position statement and call to action on artificial intelligence

• World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) recommendations on the use of chatbots on scholarly publishing (full article).

Main points

1. Chatbots cannot be authors.
2. Authors should be transparent about how and when chatbots are used.
   1. When an AI tool is used to carry out or generate analytical work or help report results, this should be stated in the paper.
3. Authors are responsible for the material provided by a chatbot in their paper (including the accuracy of what is presented and the absence of plagiarism).
4. Editors and peer reviewers should specify, to authors and each other, any use of chatbots in the evaluation of the manuscript and generation of reviews and correspondence.

They are very effective language tools but are poor choices for identifying research. All these tools are prone to fabrication (AKA hallucinating), and may make up references if asked to provide sources. These tools are free to use and include:

• Chat GPT
• Microsoft Copilot
• Google Gemini

To obtain information based on known sources use the tools listed in 'AI Tools to Find Evidence'.

Acceptable uses of these tools:

• formulate ideas such as outlines or questions
• assistance with tasks such as Excel formulas
• rephrasing information to a particular audience
• proof read text

These tools use reliable sources of information such as Semantic Scholar.

In general they should not hallucinate and will give sources .

They have functions such as providing a synopsis. data extraction and identifying citations. Subscription may be required to access some features.

Examples

• Elicit.com
• Scite.ai
• Consensus.app
• Perplexity.ai
• Evidence Hunt

These tools allow you to summarise or ask questions of documents.

• Docalysis.
• Scholarcy
• Adobe AI Assistant 

• A Generative AI Primer.
• AI Trends for Healthcare. CSIRO 2024
  • This report identifies the opportunities and challenges facing the continued and inevitable integration of AI in Australia’s healthcare sector; from clinical decision support to administrative tasks.
• An introduction to copyright law and practice in education, and the concerns arising in the context of GenerativeAI. JISC blog. 2024
  • Generative AI is evolving rapidly and, as debate continues around its role within teaching, learning and assessment, the issue of ownership and of the laws of copyright in particular raise important concerns