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Pharmaceutical impurity detection and analysis represent critical quality assurance components directly impacting drug safety, therapeutic efficacy, and regulatory compliance throughout the product lifecycle. The escalating complexity of contemporary pharmaceutical formulations--including biologics, antibody-drug conjugates, and advanced therapeutics--demands analytical methodologies exceeding capabilities of conventional manual approaches. Automation technologies enable real-time monitoring, high-throughput sample processing, and standardized methodology execution with minimal human intervention, while artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms excel at pattern recognition, predictive modeling, and decision support in complex analytical data. Integration of automation and artificial intelligence creates pharmaceutical quality control systems substantially more powerful than either technology alone, enabling transition from reactive, manual quality control toward proactive, data-driven quality management systems. Convolutional neural networks achieve 6-24% improvements in peak detection accuracy compared to conventional algorithms, with particular advantages in deconvoluting overlapping chromatographic peaks and identifying trace-level impurities. Recurrent neural networks and long short-term memory architectures provide exceptional capabilities for time-series analysis, enabling prediction of impurity formation kinetics and degradation pathways. Deep learning models achieve automated peak detection accuracy exceeding 95%, with average error in peak area determination approximately 4% compared to conventional approaches. Machine learning models demonstrate toxicity prediction accuracy exceeding 90% in external validation sets, enabling early identification of genotoxic impurities and hazardous degradation products. Process analytical technology integration with artificial intelligence enables unprecedented real-time manufacturing process monitoring, transitioning pharmaceutical manufacturing from batch-release testing toward real-time quality assurance. Persistent challenges include data quality management, model validation, regulatory acceptance frameworks, computational infrastructure requirements, and explainability of deep learning black-box models. Current regulatory frameworks emphasize risk-based validation approaches with proportionate testing based on model criticality and complexity. Harmonized global regulatory frameworks remain essential objective requiring ongoing collaboration between pharmaceutical manufacturers, technology developers, and regulatory agencies. Future advancement focuses on generative artificial intelligence applications, advanced impurity profiling strategies, real-time release testing implementation, and establishment of globally consistent validation standards and performance acceptance criteria.