This piece is part of our coverage of The International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) annual meeting. What exactly is artificial intelligence (AI)? How could generative AI be used in perioperative medicine? How is AI currently used? Why is there a need for more “granular data”? Presented by Desiree Chappell, TopMedTalk co-editor in Chief and Monty Mythen, TopMedTalk’s founder, with their guest Hannah Lonsdale, Assistant Professor in Pediatric Anesthesiology at Vanderbilt UMC.