American Association of Dental Editors & Journalists www.aadej.org 18 AWARD FEATURE caries for improved diagnosis, assisting in customized treatment planning, and patient engagement. With these benefits also come potential challenges of utilizing AI in dentistry. 1. Data Privacy and Security: AI systems handle sensitive patient data, making data breaches and privacy concerns a significant risk. 1 2. Diagnostic Accuracy: While AI algorithms can be highly accurate, there is still a need to validate their performance and ensure their reliability in realworld dental settings. 2 3. Legal and Ethical Challenges in Practice: This raises the question about accountability and responsibility for the medical decision-making process.3 4. Dental Workforce and Training: Appropriate dental integration, education, and training is required for both dental students and dental providers to implement AI safely and ethically into healthcare.4 5. Evidence-based challenges: information provided at times by an AI platform may not necessarily exist. It’s essential to note that the responses [the AI] generate[s] are based on patterns in the data [the AI] was trained on and [the] understanding of human language but may not always reflect real or current references. Therefore, any references provided in [the] responses should be taken as illustrative examples and not as verifiable sources. For accurate and up-to-date information, it is always best to consult reliable and authoritative sources.5 The benefits of improved diagnostics, personalized treatment plans, and increased efficiency can lead to better patient outcomes and experiences. However, careful consideration of risks such as data privacy, diagnostic accuracy, and ethical concerns is crucial to ensure the responsible and effective implementation of AI in dental practice. My question to you is, have you chatted with an AI lately? I welcome you to do so. Several at no-cost AI platforms are available, and until you have kinesthetically utilized the AI system to know its capacity and challenged to see its intelligence, you may be wading in and out of the comfort of accepting it. What if I told you that in this editorial, all italicized areas were written by ChatGPT? Originally, the first four potential challenges of utilizing AI in dentistry (data privacy and security, diagnostic accuracy, legal and ethical concerns, and training and education) was written by ChatGPT; however, out of the four references initially provided by ChatGPT, two out of four (50%) of the references did not exist after verification (legal and ethical concerns and training and education). Because the references did not exist, it was necessary to remove ChatGPT’s original writing, manually delve into PubMed for evidence-based literature and rewrite both of these two areas to accurately reflect reported challenges with AI in dentistry with validated references. After mulling it over…Gen-AI… are you in? Author has no financial interest to disclose. All italicized fonts were written by ChatGPT. References: 1. Hwang TJ, Kesselheim AS, et al. Lifecycle regulation of artificial intelligence- and machine learning-based software devices in medicine. JAMA 2019; 322(21), 2085-2086. doi:10. 1001/ jama.2019.16842. 2. Rajkomar, A, Dean, J, et al. Machine learning in medicine. The New England Journal of Medicine 2019; 380(14), 1347-1358. doi:10.1056/NEJMra 1814259. 3. Rokhshad R, Ducret M, et al. Ethical considerations on artificial intelligence in dentistry: A framework and checklist. J Dent. 2023 Jun 22. doi:10.1016/j.jdent.2023.104593. 4. Kim CS, Samaniego CS, Sousa Melo SL, et al. Artificial intelligence (A.I.) in dental curricula: Ethics and responsible integration. J Dent Educ. 2023 Jul 25. doi:10. 1002/jdd.13337. 5. ChaptGPT (2023). “chatgpt has provided references that do not exist, can you explain it?”. OpenAI. https://chat.openai.com. Utilized direct opinion of itself for use in dentistry. 2023. From personal assistants like Siri and Alexa to AI-powered feeds on social media, email filtering and driving navigation, even predictive word texting and search engines, each of these integrate a learning-enhanced system that involves AI.
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