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AI-authored or AI-co-authored medical manuscripts present heterogeneous risk: a hypothesis-generating commentary differs in consequence from a meta-analysis cited in clinical guidelines. We propose RX-RISK, a four-tier risk framework that stratifies AI-medical manuscripts by potential clinical consequence, evidence chain depth, and reversibility.

Existing reporting guidelines (CONSORT, PRISMA, ARRIVE, TRIPOD) were designed before AI co-authorship was common, and they neither prompt for the disclosures most relevant to AI-mediated work nor prescribe the format in which those disclosures should appear. We propose AI-REPORT, a 27-item checklist with machine-readable schema, designed to interoperate with existing guidelines rather than replace them.