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Large language models (LLMs) and generative AI

LLMs are AI systems trained on vast amounts of textual data to learn patterns in language and to generate human-like responses to requests and responses.

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  1. Deception in clinical large language models: an under-recognised safety risk (2 July 2026)

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  2. AI in healthcare: the problem is not hallucination, it is false confidence

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  3. This researcher made up a disease to test AI. It failed miserably (22 May 2026)

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  4. Generative AI in healthcare as a driver of economic growth in the UK (July 2025)

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  5. Generative artificial intelligence-driven chatbots and medical misinformation: an accuracy, referencing and readability audit (14 April 2026)

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  6. Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health: Guidance on large multi-modal models (WHO, 25 March 2026)

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  7. The harsh interface between patient care and automation led to a highly avoidable death

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  8. Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study (9 February 2026)

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  9. Editorial: Large language models and misinformation (January 2026)

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  10. The launch of ‘ChatGPT for health’ is both a threat and an opportunity (HSJ, 19 January 2026)

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  11. What is the role of ambient voice technology in improving care?

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  12. Copilot has arrived in the NHS — But no one told us how to fly it!

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  13. When helpfulness backfires: LLMs and the risk of false medical information due to sycophantic behavior (17 October 2025)

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  14. The illusion of readiness: Stress testing large frontier models on multimodal medical benchmarks (22 September 2025)

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  15. Generative artificial intelligence in medicine: a mixed-methods survey of UK general practitioners (22 July 2025)

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  16. Balancing promise and risk: AI hallucinations, confabulations and omissions in healthcare

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  17. Multi-model assurance analysis showing large language models are highly vulnerable to adversarial hallucination attacks during clinical decision support (2 August 2025)

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  18. Pioneering an AI clinical copilot with Penda Health (22 July 2025)

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  19. I-SIRch: AI-powered concept annotation tool for equitable extraction and analysis of safety insights from maternity investigations (20 November 2024)

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  20. The critical need for expert oversight of ChatGPT: Prompt engineering for safeguarding child healthcare information (13 September 2024)

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  21. Artificial intelligence-powered chatbots in search engines: a cross-sectional study on the quality and risks of drug information for patients (1 October 2024)

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  22. Clinical evaluation of a machine learning–based early warning system for patient deterioration (16 September 2024)

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  23. Artificial Intelligence and the practice of patient safety: GPT-4 performance on a standardized test of safety knowledge (26 September 2024)

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  24. Sue Sheridan is hit with another medical error. This time, ChatGPT prevented the worst (27 August 2024)

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  25. Ethical and regulatory challenges of large language models in medicine (23 April 2024)

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