Background: AI tools have become essential in the research process, currently playing an indispensable 
role in academic writing and nursing Research. Aim: to address different accessible AI tools and clarify its 
benefits in relation to nursing research, the second aim is to highlight some challenges of using AI regarding 
ethical and legal issues. content delivered includes, different five AI accessible tools, (NotebookLM, 
paperpal. ResearchRabbit, semantic scholar, AI2 paper finder) discussing each one main functions, and 
benefits that it provides to nursing researches. The article addresses little challenges focusing on ethical 
and legal aspects of using AI tools in nursing research. Conclusion: The article concluded that AI is now 
an essential tools for nursing researchers that facilitate research process, starting from helping in initiating 
the research title, editing, paraphrasing and bibliography writing, in addition to at the same time the 
researchers should consider limitations of using AI tools including ethical and legal aspects as AI uses is 
not yet well addressed by all the academic institutions. Recommendation: institutions should claim a clear 
policies to clarify the limitations, and putting boundaries for using AI tools in academic writing and nursing 
research. However Applying AI tools are essential in nursing research, but they still have to be used with 
cautions.