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Published on in Vol 12 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/89741, first published .
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The New Gravity: How Generative AI Remapped Innovation and What Academia Must Do Next

The New Gravity: How Generative AI Remapped Innovation and What Academia Must Do Next

Hossein Akbarialiabad   1, 2 * , MD, MSc, HMBA ;   Ayman Grada   3 , MD, MS ;   Sancy A Leachman   1 , MD, PhD ;   David Rhew   4 , MD ;   Alireza Haghighi   5, 6, 7 * , MD, DPhil

1 Department of Dermatology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, United States

2 Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Sydney, NSW, Australia

3 Department of Dermatology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, United States

4 Healthcare, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, United States

5 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

6 Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, United States

7 Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

*these authors contributed equally

Corresponding Author:

  • Alireza Haghighi, MD, DPhil
  • Harvard Medical School
  • 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
  • Boston, MA 02115
  • United States
  • Email: ahaghighi@bwh.harvard.edu