Guest Editors Daniela Kamir and Shiri Diskin provide an introduction to this issue, whose theme Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

We are in an era in which most people cannot imagine living without either computers or smartphones. We are well aware of how machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) tools support our daily lives. And now, with their rapid development, medical writers can leverage these technologies to enhance productivity, quality, and innovation. The idea for a Medical Writing issue focusing on automation in medical writing arose about 2 years ago. This was quite a few months before ChatGPT became a household term, and the tool itself went swiftly into use with almost every copy-editing professional, every lawyer, and every person in any industry that uses text as their main tool of the trade. We were very interested in taking a snapshot of the landscape of tools that are currently available to medical writers and how they are being used.

Medical Writing. 2023;32(3):2–4. https://doi.org/10.56012/vrpa5453