Using AI as a premed will ruin your career and keep you from ever becoming a doctor. There’s recently been an influx of premeds using generative AI like ChatGPT to write their personal statements, their work in activities, their secondary essays. The entire medical school application and medical school admissions committees will see right through it. Your application should highlight you, who you are, what you care about, and how you’ve been able to make an impact. AI blurs your voice. And just like there are generative AI programs to write, there are also AI programs to detect essays that have been tampered with. And all these tools will get better over time, ironically with the improvement of AI. So don’t get me wrong, AI is a fantastic piece of software that is revolutionizing the world and how we interact with it every single day. But in the field of medical school admissions, you do not want to be relying on AI to write your essays and paint your narrative for you. If you want AI to help you make a study schedule, or create a timeline for your four year plan, or parse through hundreds of rows of data for your research project, that’s a fantastic use of the software. But please don’t let ChatGPT write your personal statement. It sounds robotic, the writing never sounds human, and it does not capture your voice.