Introducing a new Surgery article category: Artificial intelligence in surgery.

Artificial intelligence applications continue to accelerate the development of novel solutions to enduring challenges in surgery by accurately representing the complex, non-linear nature of surgical care. These developments occur alongside substantial progress made in other healthcare fields, fueled by technological advances and increasing federal funding for artificial intelligence research. While artificial intelligence healthare applications are evolving incrementally, industries outside healthcare are being transformed rapidly by artificial intelligence. Surgeons face the reality that artificial intelligence will transform surgical care. In fulfilling our professional responsibility to steer this process, we must improve our efficiency and effectiveness in generating, evaluating, and disseminating high-quality surgical artificial intelligence research.